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  • Russia appears to be targeting journalists with spyware known as Pegasus.

  • Pegasus is a "zero-click" software, hacking phones by sending texts that don't need to be opened.

  • The software has targeted dozens of journalists, activists, and politicians in recent years.

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[–] Ottomateeverything@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, the argument that there's money in this business only furthers the point here - there's money in it because it's valuable to abuse systems. Therefore the people running those systems should be the ones fucking funding it. And then using that agreement to keep the exploit details behind closed doors until they are able to fix it.

It's almost like this should be an entire internal department. Maybe it could be named after the idea of keeping things secure?

If the company making massive profits off the sales of these devices isn't going to fund it, who is? It's fucking insane to me that Google basically funds the security of iOS for Apple, who's their direct competition in that market. We probably wouldn't even know this exists if it wasn't for stuff like that.