Israeli company NSO hacks WhatsApp to spy on human rights defenders

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Can the Israeli government be held accountable for the misdeeds of a Tel Aviv based software company, which is accused of stealing user data from popular mobile app WhatsApp?

“It [NSO] gained popularity when it was the first company to hack through iPhone,” Veten recalled. NSO’s usefulness for states

Just as curtailing state-sponsored surveillance has become a daunting task, it has become equally hard to establish accountability from governments with questionable human rights records. “In cybersecurity the most difficult job after a cyberattack is to definitively name a perpetrator. This problem is called 'Attribution Problem'. Even if we reached NSO in this case, do you think NSO will tell us this was done on behalf of this [particular] government?”

 

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