Ex-Meta security staffer accuses Greece of spying on her phone Meta's former security policy manager, who split her time between the US and Greece, is reportedly suing the Hellenic national intelligence service for hacking her phone. After apparently wiretapping her mobile, the Greek spy agency allegedly deployed Predator surveillance software on Artemis Seaford's device while she was …
It's like Jehovah's Witnesses not liking Halloween because they don't want random strangers knocking on their doors.
So too, an employee of one of the (if not the) biggest usurpers of private data in the world decided to go finger-pointing.
Shouldn't you be bowing your head in shame if you're a "security staffer" who allowed themselves to get pwned (if the allegation is even true)?
I must be paranoid then because I have a different feature phone for SMS that doesn’t connect to the Internet. If you send me a link on an SMS to that number clicking on it has no effect at all. I have to laboriously copy the address over to another device and check the address then for anomalies or malicious content on the landing page.
"Shouldn't you be bowing your head in shame if you're a "security staffer" who allowed themselves to get pwned (if the allegation is even true)?"
No. As someone who works in security, one thing that you will find out if you don't already know it by working in security is that you are not impervious to attack and nor is anyone else. For the same reason, if you're an expert at self defense tactics and someone shoots you, that is not a cause of shame for you and it does not exonerate the shooter. Victim blaming doesn't help.
Meta's security policy manager clicked on a link sent in an SMS without bothering to check what it was really doing first? I wonder what it says about that sort of thing in, er, Meta's security policy?
I guess that's as good a reason as any for being their former security policy manager.
I know my phone is a spying device, I know it tracks my location and use. I know a simple request from anyone in LE or pretending to, can access it.
The most private thing on my phone is a picture of a pimple on my ass to inspect it.
I'm more interested in what made her worth spying on by a government.
Repeat after me; Phone/Internet is a service, it is not mine, it is not securable. Now you know better.
So relating to the responses about stories regarding the use of NSO's software by governments vs the use of Cytrox's software by governments.
NSO is total open about it being an Israeli company, and that it was founded by people who follow the religion that in Israel has the highest percentage of the population following it.
It is not clear where Cytrox are based, but allegedly Europe. Confusion about its ownership, confusion about the religion of the people who own it, so it isn't clearly an Israeli company owned by people who follow the religion that in Israel has the highest percentage of the population following it.
Looking at the responses: NSO=worst thing ever, and it, and its surroundings should be nuked; Cytrox=meh
Now, remind me, what is the name for the affliction when you think the followers of the religion that in Israel has the highest percentage of the population following it are the root of all evil?
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