[HN Gopher] Emmanuel Macron identified in leaked Pegasus project... ___________________________________________________________________ Emmanuel Macron identified in leaked Pegasus project data Author : SalimoS Score : 83 points Date : 2021-07-20 20:50 UTC (2 hours ago) (HTM) web link (www.theguardian.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.theguardian.com) | hanselot wrote: | Inb4 fifty Liberal agents are deployed to debunk this. | behindai wrote: | So, who stands behind the hack? Scary Russians? | boomboomsubban wrote: | There wasn't necessarily a hack, I don't think how the | information leaked has been shared. | zrth wrote: | This is great news. The more people in power have been hit, the | more repercussions we can hope for. | | One possible way to force a bit of scrutiny upon NSO group would | be to crowdfund an Pegasus subscription and use it against | Netanyahu. | | Any serious suggestions what we can do to ensure that in the long | run there will be less and not more "Hacking for hire" companies | lending their tools for use against journalists and the | opposition? | | Shit will really hit the fan when the "ransomware as a service" | discovers the "targeted surveillance as a service" business | model.. Interesting times to be alive. | MeinBlutIstBlau wrote: | > The more people in power have been hit, the more | repercussions we can hope for. | | This reminds me of a story I heard at a presentation when | working at a bank. A politician was going through a closing | process for property he was purchasing. He had an issue and | found out that the banks automatically tac on PMI for his type | of loan, regardless of loan to value ratios. | | A year later, their state passed legislation saying PMI cannot | be forced on mortgaged loans with certain ratios and must be | disclosed before closing. | | Funny how things work :) | mixmastamyk wrote: | Had to look up, PMI = Private mortgage insurance. | greatgib wrote: | This looks like a shocking news, but there are probably hundreds | of countries that are trying to tap on the French and other | presidents. | | This is just the moroccan gov that is too incompetent to do it by | themselves but have to use a third party consulting firm for the | job. | | And so, there will be no consequence, because all the other | governments know very well that they are dirty too, so there will | just be a few soft offense word and then trying to have the | population forget as fast as possible... | peteretep wrote: | > This looks like a shocking news | | It _is_ shocking news: the Israelis are essentially selling | munitions to the Moroccans explicitly for use against the | French | mtrovo wrote: | > Robert Malley, a longtime American diplomat who was chief | negotiator on the US-Iran deal, and who appears to have been | selected as a person of interest by Morocco in 2019. NSO has said | its government clients are prevented from deploying its software | against US numbers because it has been made "technically | impossible". | | Is there more info about why this is technically impossible or is | it just their PR way of saying "sorry, the day we do this we're | screwed as a company"? | [deleted] | axiosgunnar wrote: | I would assume it's a deliberate ,,if number.startsWith("+1")" | precisely so nobody ends up using it on a US politician or | whatever who then goes on a rampage. | notquitehuman wrote: | Until they release some sort of irrefutable proof, why give | them the benefit of the doubt? Their track record warrants | assuming dishonesty. | boomboomsubban wrote: | Everyone cares more about the optics of spying on US | citizens than actually spying on US citizens. Like in this | example, without the convenient excuse of "it's impossible" | the headline likely would have been "Pegasus Project spies | on US diplomat and French President." | ywain wrote: | I like to imagine that some developer commented out that line | to allow for spying on Canadian persons and left a "TODO: | find better way to identify US numbers" that was never fixed. | [deleted] | peteretep wrote: | That's hilarious, although I suspect "don't hack the US" | means "don't hack five eyes" in practice | mike_d wrote: | NSO effectively operates a SaaS platform for target | exploitation and collection. They can easily add a restriction | that prevents specific phone numbers from being targeted. | | My guess is that such a restriction is in place to meet | contractual obligations. If you weaponize an exploit against US | targets, you'll never get a US based broker to sell further | exploits to you. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-07-20 23:01 UTC)