jsr on Nostr: 4/ WhatsApp suing NSO Group was a huge deal at the time. We at Citizen Lab & our ...
4/ WhatsApp suing NSO Group was a huge deal at the time.
We at Citizen Lab & our peers in civil society had been investigating & surfacing a pile of #Pegasus abuses since 2016. Journalists, dissidents, truth-tellers, scientists, lawyers..
But nobody was taking action & NSO was flying high.
The ultimate digitally-enabled playground bully.
For years, governments seemed content to let the mercenary spyware industry live in the shadows...
NSO's valuation & client list ballooned.
Meanwhile, NSO constantly misled reporters, nurtured disinformation about researchers & blamed spyware victims..
And then they got sued by a very big company that chose to stick up for its users & security.
Suddenly, NSO wasn't on such sure footing.
WhatsApp had their own factual, technical analyses, and plenty of resources
Suddenly they couldn't just claim that a few researchers were out to get them.
We at Citizen Lab & our peers in civil society had been investigating & surfacing a pile of #Pegasus abuses since 2016. Journalists, dissidents, truth-tellers, scientists, lawyers..
But nobody was taking action & NSO was flying high.
The ultimate digitally-enabled playground bully.
For years, governments seemed content to let the mercenary spyware industry live in the shadows...
NSO's valuation & client list ballooned.
Meanwhile, NSO constantly misled reporters, nurtured disinformation about researchers & blamed spyware victims..
And then they got sued by a very big company that chose to stick up for its users & security.
Suddenly, NSO wasn't on such sure footing.
WhatsApp had their own factual, technical analyses, and plenty of resources
Suddenly they couldn't just claim that a few researchers were out to get them.