Super ouch, the #uk #government were directly #infected with the #pegasus #monitoring created by #israel and used by pretty much everybody: https://citizenlab.ca/2022/04/uk-governm.. How bloody hard can it be to prevent such #attacks ? What kind of #bullshit #infrastructure are they even running out there?
@barray on Wed Jul 21 08:46:31 UTC 2021 said: &eFollowing up on the #nso #leak as part of the #pegasus project - it looks like the #israel #government has begun to take action: https://therecord.media/israeli-governme.. I really suspect the Israeli government was in on this the whole time, there is no way that such a rich treasure trove of information was left untapped. If the #audit does turn up anything it likely means their government is forcing them to fall on the sword to protect them.Oh would you look at that, it seems as though #headsofstate were also caught up in the #nso #leak https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/j.. Now I propose it's a real problem, because it no longer affects just normal worthless citizens... https://www.lotuseaters.com/heads-of-sta..
There is speculation on the tech community over on #hackernews that #apple is #patching the #pegasus #zeroday #exploit #bug currently being actively used against #journalists and #politicians https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=279.. Whatever the exploit is that they are patching, they have so far released *zero information* about it, not even a #cve number! It's quite seriously and actively being rolled out to all #ios devices in the wild.
Apparently the reason the #nso were likely keeping a #masterlist for those #infected with #pegasus is that they were handing it off to #israel #intelligence https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2.. The problem is, to even test if you've been infected is not easy and you need to use some random unverified tool to do so: https://techcrunch.com/2021/07/19/toolki.. What a mess. More #opensource needed.
#snowden calls for a ban on the #spyware #trade due to the revelation of #pegasus - something he has been warning about for years: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/ju.. Now the #media cares because it turns out they were #spying on *them* - and not just random #citizens ... And this is why projects like #pine are so important, we need #opensource #devices ! Especially #mobile #phones !