The battle in Israel to create an unhackable phone

I view working for NSO Group is no different than working for any arms company. And there is a lot of money to be made selling arms to despots and dictators. In part, because it is those leaders who have the least legitimacy are those who are the most insecure and feel need the strongest tools to solidify their rule.

Secure leaders do not need to stockpile arms, nor do they need to forcibly suppress their dissidents (which is what I understand is the main market is for NSO Group's tools.)

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> I would think that the different national intelligence agencies would have high interest in infiltrating such companies.

I bet in general non-governmental companies, especially with distributed offices, distributed sales teams, are especially easy to hack/infiltrate.

But NSO Group's target has never been other countries, it has been focused on helping governments infiltrate their citizen's and opponent's phones, which is a much softer target.

It's quite clever actually, why spend resources to try and infiltrate them - which is not a guarantee, when you can pay a fraction of the cost for their capabilities so you can focus your efforts on other nation states or your own citizens.

Why would an unhackable phone require update capability? A smartphone almost certainly would, but I don’t see why a simple dumbphone would require such.