Given the extent and depth of US-Israeli cooperation and ties, the precedeing theoretical is probably going to remain in the realm of theoretical.
https://www.theregister.com/2021/11/03/us_sanctions_spyware/
reportedly, this has created havoc on NSO, since for instance none of the cloud providers can sell services to them to host their zero-days, among other logistics headaches. Their recently hired CEO resigned.
As for destabilizing governments, they are doing the opposite, they are helping authoritarian governments worldwide crack down on journalists and dissidents, or murder them in the case of Saudi Arabia and Jamal Khashoggi. Reportedly, after the Khashoggi murder, NSO yanked the Saudi account but was forced to reinstate it by Netanyahu who was pursuing diplomatic relations with them.
https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/100/
I knew about Israeli security consultancies putting out stringrays and phone cracking tools, but I did not know about NSO. He has a good interview with one of the lead devs.
* banned the sale of any of their phones or networking products in the US
* banned US companies selling product to Huawei
* cut funding to wireless carriers using Huawei equipment
...and then pressured allied countries to do the same?
I sat in briefings about Huawei and ZTE in 2007. Regretfully can't say more.
I've grown up watching this unfold and I'm shocked that the power groups seem to be so ineffectual at times that it's laughable(but that may be by design...)
No, given that jihadists were kidnapped, tortured and murdered - all of this illegally.
It’s particularly interesting to watch as the company is based in a country that is a very close ally.
>The National Security Agency routinely shares raw intelligence data with Israel without first sifting it to remove information about US citizens, a top-secret document provided to the Guardian by whistleblower Edward Snowden reveals.
>According to the agreement, the intelligence being shared would not be filtered in advance by NSA analysts to remove US communications.
>While NSA documents tout the mutually beneficial relationship of Sigint sharing, another report, marked top secret and dated September 2007, states that the relationship, while central to US strategy, has become overwhelmingly one-sided in favor of Israel.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/11/nsa-americans-...
Memoranda, AFAICT?
Just sayin'.
Prior to Novalpina, it was Francisco Partners.
Point being, NSO has received huge amounts of money from the kind of people who, well, YCombinator founders seek out.
- md: X and Y are deeply involved in this company
- yiu: No they are not. X cleanly destroyed all the papers and officially ask we don’t talk about them. Y is a bit late but will finish cuting ties in a minute now.