Israel police reportedly use Pegasus spyware on country’s own citizens

Is anyone surprised anymore to learn that their own government spies on them? I thought that we had all accepted our new surveillance overlords. /s

More seriously, how should the people of any country attempt to stop such shenanigans, short of a full blown revolution and civil war? Our elected officials, legislators, and judges seem to serve our incumbent masters, not the people.

Personally, I have lost any hope of a peaceful resolution to the growing threat of global tyranny, but I continue to hope we can find viable solutions that might avoid the resulting transitional anarchy.

Looks like the original source is https://www.calcalistech.com/ctech/articles/0,7340,L-3927410..., submitted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29976454

Some of the companies in the field, in contrast to NSO, do have ethics committees to filter out obviously bad clients.

Once when guidelines were described to engineers a question was asked: Would Israel itself pass the ethics committee check?

The answer was "No. But..."