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In all fairness, there is no indication that Apple's top leadership was aware that the Polish-Israeli SWC Netanyau had been accused of crimes against humanity/war crimes and had lied on US media to push neocons' Iraq war (that led to disabling/killing/homelessness of over a million Americans and Iraqis) when they let him walk into the inner quarters of their headquarters.
Would facebook (that has just changed its name to restore its image apparently... how well that worked out for Blackwater?) follow Apple's lead and join the lawsuit? "Free" Whatsapp was used (without FB's knowledge ofcourse) as a vehicle for spreading spyware to infect phones around the world to aid deep neocons favored autocrats, dictators, torturers etc.
Apple Sues Israeli Spyware Maker, Seeking to Block Its Access to iPhones
Apple accused NSO Group, the Israeli surveillance company, of “flagrant” violations of its software, as well as federal and state laws.
An aerial view of an NSO Group branch in the Arava Desert in Israel.Credit...Amir Cohen/Reuters
By Nicole Perlroth
Nov. 23, 2021Updated 4:32 p.m. ET
SAN FRANCISCO — Apple sued the NSO Group, the Israeli surveillance company, in federal court on Tuesday, another setback for the beleaguered firm and the unregulated spyware industry.
The lawsuit is the second of its kind — Facebook sued NSO in 2019 for targeting its WhatsApp users — and another consequential move by a private company to curb invasive spyware by governments and the companies that provide their spy tools.
Apple, for the first time, seeks to hold NSO accountable for what it says was the surveillance and targeting of Apple users. Apple also wants to permanently prevent NSO from using any Apple software, services or devices, a move that could render the company’s Pegasus spyware product worthless, given that its core business is to give government clients full access to a target’s iPhone or Android smartphone.
Apple is also asking for unspecified damages for the time and cost to deal with what the company argues is NSO’s abuse of its products. Apple said it would donate the proceeds from those damages to organizations that exposed spyware.
Since NSO’s founding in 2010, its executives have said they sell spyware to governments only for lawful interception, but a series of revelations by journalists and private researchers have shown the extent to which governments have deployed NSO’s Pegasus spyware against journalists, activists and dissidents.
Apple executives described the lawsuit as a warning shot to NSO and other spyware makers. “This is Apple saying: If you do this, if you weaponize our software against innocent users, researchers, dissidents, activists or journalists, Apple will give you no quarter,” Ivan Krstic, head of Apple security engineering and architecture, said in an interview on Monday.
nytimes.com/2021/11/23/technology/apple-nso-group-lawsuit.html
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Investigation of potential Pegasus targets reveals: From Hungary to India and even Saudi Arabia, this is how Israel became the cyber industry’s patron and pushed spyware sales across the world
Facebook owned WhatsApp and Apple's iPhone messaging apps are also cited in reported Israeli spyware cases
"In the 2019 hack, the spyware exploited a 'zero-day bug in the WhatsApp application, that would see users receive a WhatsApp call and have the malicious code installed on their phone even if they didn't answer. Similarly, Apple's iMessage software has also fallen victim to Pegasus. "
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It works in cohorts with the executive where any action is taken to protect the “sanctity” of the judges. And it goes both ways; from the Ayodhya verdict to the Rafale case, Justice Gogoi’s tenure saw numerous favourable judgments for the government – perhaps to return government favors like surveilling someone illegally.
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Would facebook (that has just changed its name to restore its image apparently... how well that worked out for Blackwater?) follow Apple's lead and join the lawsuit? "Free" Whatsapp was used (without FB's knowledge ofcourse) as a vehicle for spreading spyware to infect phones around the world to aid deep neocons favored autocrats, dictators, torturers etc.
Apple Sues Israeli Spyware Maker, Seeking to Block Its Access to iPhones
Apple accused NSO Group, the Israeli surveillance company, of “flagrant” violations of its software, as well as federal and state laws.
An aerial view of an NSO Group branch in the Arava Desert in Israel.Credit...Amir Cohen/Reuters
By Nicole Perlroth
Nov. 23, 2021Updated 4:32 p.m. ET
SAN FRANCISCO — Apple sued the NSO Group, the Israeli surveillance company, in federal court on Tuesday, another setback for the beleaguered firm and the unregulated spyware industry.
The lawsuit is the second of its kind — Facebook sued NSO in 2019 for targeting its WhatsApp users — and another consequential move by a private company to curb invasive spyware by governments and the companies that provide their spy tools.
Apple, for the first time, seeks to hold NSO accountable for what it says was the surveillance and targeting of Apple users. Apple also wants to permanently prevent NSO from using any Apple software, services or devices, a move that could render the company’s Pegasus spyware product worthless, given that its core business is to give government clients full access to a target’s iPhone or Android smartphone.
Apple is also asking for unspecified damages for the time and cost to deal with what the company argues is NSO’s abuse of its products. Apple said it would donate the proceeds from those damages to organizations that exposed spyware.
Since NSO’s founding in 2010, its executives have said they sell spyware to governments only for lawful interception, but a series of revelations by journalists and private researchers have shown the extent to which governments have deployed NSO’s Pegasus spyware against journalists, activists and dissidents.
Apple executives described the lawsuit as a warning shot to NSO and other spyware makers. “This is Apple saying: If you do this, if you weaponize our software against innocent users, researchers, dissidents, activists or journalists, Apple will give you no quarter,” Ivan Krstic, head of Apple security engineering and architecture, said in an interview on Monday.
nytimes.com/2021/11/23/technology/apple-nso-group-lawsuit.html
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July 20, 2021
Where Netanyahu Went, NSO Followed: How Israel Pushed Cyberweapon Sales
Haaretz
Investigation of potential Pegasus targets reveals: From Hungary to India and even Saudi Arabia, this is how Israel became the cyber industry’s patron and pushed spyware sales across the world
Facebook owned WhatsApp and Apple's iPhone messaging apps are also cited in reported Israeli spyware cases
"In the 2019 hack, the spyware exploited a 'zero-day bug in the WhatsApp application, that would see users receive a WhatsApp call and have the malicious code installed on their phone even if they didn't answer. Similarly, Apple's iMessage software has also fallen victim to Pegasus. "
Facebook Is Collaborating With the Israeli Government
Those who want Silicon Valley tech giants to be arbiters of political speech are playing with fire.
Glenn Greenwald
September 12 2016
Potential impact on iPhone sales due to Israeli spyware Co. attacks on iPhones, Facebook apps
Video of Tim Cook's Lunch Meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Gives Inside Look at Apple HQ - MacRumors
AppleInsider
French Prez Macron orders inquiry into Israeli spyware case after reports of his phone hack
Call for Hungarian ministers to resign in wake of Pegasus revelations
Israeli spyware used to target phones of journalists and activists
Mexico used Israeli Spyware Pegasus to Surveil President’s Family & a Murdered Journalist
Mexicans stunned: Their ousted president just gave Jared Kushner their nation’s greatest award
The Order of the Aztec Eagle, issued by Mexico to foreigners who make a significant contribution to the country
Tue November 27, 2018
Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto will bestow Mexico's highest honor for foreigners on Jared Kushner on Friday in Buenos Aires, a source familiar with the matter tells CNN.
QAnon believers don't know how to handle Flynn's ties to Israeli spyware firm behind Pegasus
Pegasus spyware scandal: Why were Indian health advocates targeted?
From a virologist to health nonprofits, Kunal Purohit explores what the Pegasus Project’s India list reveals about the country’s health system politics.
Modi government accused of spying on critics and opponents using Pegasus spyware
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JURIST Staff
August 2, 2021
It works in cohorts with the executive where any action is taken to protect the “sanctity” of the judges. And it goes both ways; from the Ayodhya verdict to the Rafale case, Justice Gogoi’s tenure saw numerous favourable judgments for the government – perhaps to return government favors like surveilling someone illegally.
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Pegasus fallout: Amazon shuts down Israeli spyware maker NSO's account on AWS
