From Instagram to insta-banned: Facebook wipes NSO Group workers' personal profiles amid WhatsApp hack rap Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp are today busy deleting the personal profiles of employees at NSO Group amid an ongoing legal battle. This move to wipe said staff off the face of Mark Zuckerberg's sprawling cyber-empire comes the day after his antisocial network sued NSO for allegedly illegally hacking the smartphones …
""Why? Because I work for a company called NSO Group, and according to their statements, have found and used vulnerabilities in their WhatsApp architecture, to provide security agencies and governments sophisticated tools to prevent the next 9/11."
Craven appeals to fear like that aren't a good look for you, NSO.
Hey - I got a good laugh out of that "we don't allow our software to be used nefariously" line.
What a crock. Not only is that impossible, it's already been misused - the point of the retaliation exercise!
Aw, you attack someone who then denies you their "free" services. Where's that tiny violin, I'm sure it's around here somewhere.
"Because I work for a company called NSO Group, and according to their statements, have found and used vulnerabilities in their WhatsApp architecture, to provide security agencies and governments sophisticated tools to prevent the next 9/11"
Ya well they didn't need "sophisticated tools" to prevent the last 9/11 just not to be silo'd and hate each others agencies.
And oh yeah when getting a direct tip actually follow it up.
"On August 11, 2001, Moussaoui and his roommate, Hussein al-Attas, arrived in Egan, Minnesota and checked into a hotel. Moussaoui began classes at Pan Am Flight School there on August 13, 2001. On Wednesday, August 15, 2001, an employee at Pan Am called the FBI's Minneapolis Field Office because the employee and other Pan Am employees were suspicious of Moussaoui."
And oh yeah when getting a direct tip actually follow it up.
The US intelligence agencies got the complete "blueprint" for 9/11 attack about 3 months before it happened with KSM was arrested in Manila, Philippines.
The information was not "actioned" (or taken seriously) because the Americans all believed that "no one DARES to attack US soil".
"no one DARES to attack US soil"
they must have had short memories. The Trade Towers were already car bombed in 1993. 6 dead, >1000 injured.
Bad enough but the plan was to collapse the north tower into the south, if the bomb was in a different position that might have happened.
Yeah, our pre-9/11 stance felt almost full-on May West. ("I have always relied on the kindness of strangers.") People who were paying attention were VERY worried. I was actually fighting low-grade panic attacks after spy plane incident off Chinese water.
"NSO Group has countered that it does not allow its software to be used for any illegal surveillance and only sells its tools to legit governments and agencies that investigate terrorism and crime."
"Here Mr Government, buy our software for spying on terrorists only, it won't work on your political adversaries, Journalists, wikileakers, dissidents or the minorities your government is prejudice against"
And how do they ensure that it's software isn't used for any illegal surveillance? have they a back door that reports to them every purpose for which their software is used?
Get real, stop spouting waffle, spy software is spy software, it spies on people, nothing you can do to stop that other than not produce it in the first place.
I don’t work for NSO group, and I have no social media accounts, but if there’s a way of getting the latter situation enforced by the likes of FB (just so long as that includes them not silently compiling data about me from elsewhere and using/selling it) then where can I sign up?
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