Yet they are protected by the US and Israel, which I believe is the case that they have backdoors into all of it, and getting the targets to actually install this malware on their own saves a lot time.
All good, except for the actual real world victims.
That describes the entire Israeli defence industry, and a fair sized portion of Israel's cybersecurity industry, based on the stomach-churning sales pitches I've received.
NSO are not unique, they just got unlucky.
Care to elaborate? This could be news story-worthy
I really feel like people aren't thinking this stuff through. Exploits and implants are not rocket science. There aren't a huge number of people in the world that are world-class at reliably exploiting modern targets, but it's not like there's just like 20 of them or something.
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In case it's unclear from the comment: I don't think this is a good thing. I'm speaking positively, not normatively.
So what? Does this mean we should sell our arms to any horrible enemies of our state because if we don't, China will?
Many many of these regimes target Americans. Kashoggi had American citizen kids. Why do we allow our own citizens to get harmed because we have to love Israel and NSO so much? Who gets paid to look the other way?
ever heard of fingers in fedex boxes being sent to mothers in the states? does that make fedex liable?
probably not NSO is just the weak kid thats been caught and is the punching bag
FedEx operates a service known to be used by criminals but also of so much utility to the average citizen that the government has an entire service to provide the same thing.
The government doesn't provide spyware to anyone commercially and neither should we tolerate companies that do.