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Apple Outlines How It Will Notify Users Who Have Been Targeted by State-Sponsored Spyware Attacks
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So they can victimise theirselves while they commit a genocide towards Palestinian
Israel isn’t the only one that does this kind of spying. The United States is just as implicated.It's important to boycott Israel, which is responsible for this software, as well:
Despite Abuses of NSO Spyware, Israel Will Lobby U.S. to Defend It
As a new accusation surfaces that NSO’s software may have been used to spy on Palestinians, Israeli officials say it is crucial to national security.www.nytimes.com
If Apple can stop selling its products in Turkey because of economic concerns, it can certainly stop selling products in Israel for software concerns.
An interesting podcast that goes into hacking and more is DarkNet Diaries.
LMAO. If you read, it is state sponsored.
If this was China or Russia, everyone here will immediately call Apple to pull out from China or Russia.
Will they notify it when it’s sponsored by the USA though haha?
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You say that as though considering potential repercussions is a bad thing. If you're a soldier being sent to war with no body armour is it wrong to worry about the "potential" risk of injury that might result, or should you only complain after getting injured?
Well, state regulated/sanctioned anyway.
As for claims about China/Russia, I don't know. State sanctioned hackers in Russia shut down a US oil pipeline that lead to fuel shortage across the East Coast. I don't see anyone here talking about boycotting Russia.
Meanwhile, China is committing genocide. Again, I don't see anyone on these forums calling to boycott China or refusing to buy Apple products assembled in China.
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This is good. More tech companies need to take spying and stalkware seriously. The idea that AV vendors knew of that software, and were silent on it is understandable, but knowing that those 'tools' are being widely misused, notifying users is great news. I'd want to know. In my past life, I was an environmental activist, and one corporation in particular had people followed, and who knows what else. One person I had met was fired from their job under questionable conditions. Another subgroup was threatened with a SLAPP lawsuit over their attempts to interview their employees. People were getting death threats too. I wouldn't put it past them to use any tool at their disposal to threaten, stalk, intimidate, terrorize, people in the community. It could backfire and push legitimate subjects farther in the darkness, but the misuse of those 'tools', cyberweapons, should come with consequences. Whoever thought it was a great idea to use them to stalk exes and people critical of them were immature and shortsighted. Like, sure a small thermonuclear device would remove that stump, but is the collateral damage really worth it?
That… has nothing to do with whether something is spyware or not. Spyware is software that compromises user privacy, which CSAM definitely is. While most spyware runs hidden from the user it doesn’t mean it stops being spyware if the company behind it announces what it does.
You are not wrong, but I did say not willingly notify the public. CSAM only became a thing Apple fully disclosed the particulars of, after the public discovered its existence on their own.Except they notified the public?
The problem with this, and really all attempts like this, is who maintains the list of who is a 'threat' and who can (and will) exploit this in the future, especially as the companies that have the keys are increasingly more politically one-sided.
I'm glad Apple is doing this. Hopefully their lawsuit is successful as well.
Won't work on me. I'm not important enough for anyone to spy on.😏 Ah, the perks of being a proletariat/plebian. 🥳 Big Brother didn't care about us in Nineteen Eighty-Four, they still don't care about us in 2021.😐
If you are on the internet, you will be targeted, and someone will spend time trying to hack your life. Don't ever assume it can't/won't happen.
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Again, they stopped selling in Turkey for an issue far less dangerous, and Israel used the software to spy on Palestinians
The use of Stingray fake cell towers has been reduced quite a bit but I read that a small town near me was crowing about how they had a Stingray. I really had to sit and think about that for a while. Do cows have cell phones? Is there that much 'naughty' activity among farmers and livestock? Seems like quite a waste of money to me.
'Hey Elmer! Those Johnson farm cows are at it again! We need to head over there and see if we can deal with this without having to resort to some 'rough milking'! Those damned bovine fools, we'll stop them!!! No way are they getting away with that again!'