Good. Maybe politicians will stop lusting for mass surveillance if they get a taste of their own medicine.
This is getting ridiculous.
Quick, someone use the confusion to pass the reformation laws and energy edicts we really need.
It’s as equally wrong as what was revealed one week ago when 4 Catalan Presidents and 2 Presidents of the Catalan parliament (plus 60 pro-secession activists and politicians) had been spied on. Let’s see how they respond to this curveball.
>”NSO’s firm stance on these issues is that the use of cyber tools in order to monitor politicians, dissidents, activists and journalists is a severe misuse of any technology and goes against the desired use of such critical tools,” said a spokesperson.
And yet,
>”The company does not and cannot know who the targets of its customers are, yet implements measures to ensure that these systems are used solely for the authorised uses.”
Are they lying, did the measures fail (through design or not), can they tell which client was responsible but won’t share it?
Contrary to the flair, this is today’s news.
Israel not quite making friends. Are they the overlords?
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Good. Maybe politicians will stop lusting for mass surveillance if they get a taste of their own medicine.
This is getting ridiculous.
Quick, someone use the confusion to pass the reformation laws and energy edicts we really need.
It’s as equally wrong as what was revealed one week ago when 4 Catalan Presidents and 2 Presidents of the Catalan parliament (plus 60 pro-secession activists and politicians) had been spied on. Let’s see how they respond to this curveball.
The [Guardian has](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/02/spain-prime-minister-pedro-sanchez-phone-pegasus-spyware) the story too.
>”NSO’s firm stance on these issues is that the use of cyber tools in order to monitor politicians, dissidents, activists and journalists is a severe misuse of any technology and goes against the desired use of such critical tools,” said a spokesperson.
And yet,
>”The company does not and cannot know who the targets of its customers are, yet implements measures to ensure that these systems are used solely for the authorised uses.”
Are they lying, did the measures fail (through design or not), can they tell which client was responsible but won’t share it?
Contrary to the flair, this is today’s news.
Israel not quite making friends. Are they the overlords?