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Sounds like Apple and Google need to go to the same court and demand that NSO Group be banned from targeting iOS and Android.
Now that NSO Group has been sold to US investors, it will be a LOT harder for them to ignore or hide from such rulings. I would love to see that acquisition become valueless. Serves them right for thinking "yeah I want to profit from selling spyware to dictators that lets them target journalists and activists"
You think Microsoft should be able to go after them for targeting WIndows? Office?
The first guilty party is software manufacturers that produce products with bad security.
Beyond that, if these suits or injunctions actually start to bite, sovereign immunity will step in. This injunction can just as easily be applied to ANY security research. Governments want offensive capabilities. They won't allow any judge to stop them from researching it.
Stopping them from RESEARCHING it isn't the same as stopping them from SELLING it.
If the NSA was developing exploits and selling them on the open market to every bad actor who was willing to come up with the cash, then I'd want them banned from the selling part. I recognize the need for some offensive capability for national security when you have other countries attacking, just like you need to build weapons as a defensive capability. But as with cyberweapons, you wouldn't want the US government to sell nuclear weapons on the open market to whoever is willing to pay.
"Due to recent litigation from META, NSO will no longer be selling software targeting WhatsApp.
If you would like WhatsApp Targeting software, please contact the firm NOS, who are completely unrelated to us, NSO, and it's a pure coincidence that their address happens to be right next to our own. But naturally, we have nothing to do with them whatsoever... *wink wink nudge nudge*"
Next step shoud be bannin Meta spying plus FISA and Cloud Act... the US too has no legal rights to spy on others - not matter what the Congress rules, they can't rule abroad. If it it do it illegaly - like anybody else - then it's fair game for NSO too....
Are you European? In the US understanding of rights and of law, we are born with Natural Rights, and we cede some of them (most notably the right to vengeance) in order to secure others (the right to live peaceably). Our agent, the US Government, functions as the guarantor of these rights. Flawed as the matter is in practice, the first right (the right to live peaceably) is not something that can be guaranteed merely by police action. Our government MUST seek out threats. That means spying.
What other countries have to say about whatever spying our national government does--that's a matter for the diplomats. Various accords exists.
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