The World’s Most Terrifying Spyware | Investigators
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Published 2021-10-02
A huge leak in July 2021, revealed 50,000 phone numbers that had been targeted; including president of France Emmanual Macron, and friends of the family of Saudi journalist Jamal Kashoggi in the lead up to his murder in 2018.
Eyal Weizman and Shourideh Molavi from Forensic Architecture used open-source investigation to gather reports of digital Pegasus infections to reveal how they relate to acts of violence in the real world.
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All Comments (21)
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Watch more from this series: Who was behind the 1994 World Cup massacre? https://youtu.be/03jc5tWACKo
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Snowden warned us about this a decade ago lol.
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Bruh….😳 I don’t think think people understand how this can effect the world in the next 10 years this is crazy
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This is the front line we're not hearing enough of. Thank you to Vice and these two journalists!
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Blacklist it, destroy it, and ban it from existence on the entire planet. It is a violation of privacy and could be considered wiretapping which is a crime, which needs to be changed to a Federal Crime. Any person who does such whether a citizen, or government official, or federal agents, or law enforcement should be considered guilty. Absolutely unacceptable. Change it now.
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Next on Vice News "Two Pegasus Investigators go missing"
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The Brazilian government tried to purchase a license of this… this is fucked up
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Someone in Russia will find a way to copy this Pegasus and sell it to the public on the dark web.
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"vets military's human rights records" is the best unintentional joke out there
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Pegasus says they want to prevent crime but it seems to me that this program is criminal in and of itself.
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If this is what we know about, imagine what we don't...
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I admire the bravery of these two investigators and wonder how they sleep at night.
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As they say; You'll appreciate the freedom once you lost it. It's terrifying to see that we (as the public) are losing our freedom both in real life and on the internet. Keep fighting for freedom ✊
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they all just say its to "fight terrorism" they simply use fear as a way to get consent from the people
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This software is a monstrosity
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"No matter how paranoid or conspiracy minded you are, what the government is actually doing is worse than you can imagine". ~William Blum
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Remember back in the day when someone was peeking in on your private life, they were called creeps. Still are.
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Oh they doing it
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Benjamin Franklin once said: "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
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Can you imagine everyone throwing their phone away and just living their life as it was meant?