Pegasus by Laurent Richard review – spyware hiding in plain sight
by Charles Arthur from Technology | The Guardian on (#67PYE)
The story of how investigative journalists exposed the frightening abuse of software that can infect your phone
When asked what superpower they would wish for, quite a lot of people choose invisibility. The desire to be able to spy unnoticed on others appeals to something in our nature: a wish for knowledge without retribution.
The arrival of the mobile phone, and then the smartphone, has brought that power of invisible oversight to governments willing to pay the comparatively small cost - some millions of pounds - of licensing invasive software that will silently monitor a phone. The most popular one (that we know about) is called Pegasus, created by an Israeli company called NSO.
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