Apple alerts users in 92 nations to state-sponsored / mercenary-spyware attacks

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• avidamoeba@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Later, nonprofit advocacy group Amnesty International reported that it had found Israeli spyware maker NSO Group’s invasive spyware Pegasus on the iPhones of prominent journalists in India.

  Of course it’s fucking Pegasus.

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  • fiercekitten@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m of the opinion that we need to start calling NSO Group a terrorist organization.

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    • ikidd@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Also; Modi and BJP. Carrying out assassinations in Canada should get you on that list.

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  • mlg@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Lol I’ve said this before on lemmy, everyone and their mom bought the Pegasus toolkit from Israel, even the nations that still don’t recognize Israel.

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• cy_narrator@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If you are a high value target, you should not carry normal phones made for normal people.

  Its sad that none of the dumb phones were built with security in mind. Linux phones are the second best option, GrapheneOS and CalyxOS would be the least you should go.

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  • uis@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Modern crypto is often faster than old crypto. For example eliptic curve crypto in software is faster than AES in software

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    • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Is the old stuff beginning to break, or just slow?

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  • rottingleaf@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    if someone tried to

    Cryptography is what you yourself first need. Also - depends for what, if we are not using hardware acceleration. Encrypting text - yeah. Voice - may be more problematic.

    Also consumer hardware and software is generally not designed to protect high value targets.

    It’s intended for protection against crooks and hooligans, which is necessary for businesses, which is an incentive for vendors.

    Providing protection against nation states is something which may even be considered a bad thing.

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    • cy_narrator@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Maby it would be problematic for real time communication like voice when it comes to encryption but these phones do not even try to do text encryption bugs me.

      I think we should just feel okay to say “I dont know what advice to give you if you are targeted by a nation”

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  • le_saucisson_masquay@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Linux on phone is great for privacy but can you say that on security ?? It’s open source, not very popular. We’ve seen how it can go wrong recently.

    Id put it in third after grapheneos. But the end result is that it’s not suitable anyway.

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    • aniki@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Everything you typed here is wrong.

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    • uis@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Do you understand what you say?

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• tsonfeir@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Me feeling left out.

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