WhatsApp scores historic victory against NSO Group in long-running spyware hacking case | TechCrunch

A US judge ruled that the Israeli spyware maker breached hacking laws by using WhatsApp to infect devices with Pegasus

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Israeli corpo disrespecting American plebs... .

And daddy Sam kinda just lets them?
Another reminder, as if we needed it, that you should not under any circumstances use whatsapp
- Hard disagree: anything is a target for criminals like the NSO Group; blaming Whatsapp specifically for this muddies the discussion. Sure, you should avoid it - for other reasons, do a proper risk assessment please.
  
  Avoid it - for otger reasons. Do a proper
  
  I think a period is more appropriate thn a comment there, no?
  
  The comma makes it feel like you should do the risk assesment for other reasons
Anyone know was Pegasus sold as as a service or the software was sold and the user could target whoever and the number is much larger than 1400?
- It was. $10M/year. After Apple patched the buffer overflow in the gif lib and introduced blastdoor, they replaced it with Pegasus 2. Apple patched it again. That's why it's sold as a service.
  
  And it's sold as a service to nation-states. People who should be taking measures for this to never happen again are, one can say, culturally sympathetic to those buying it.

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