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What Next TBD: How Spyware Mercenaries Hack Your Phone

What Next TBD: How Spyware Mercenaries Hack Your Phone

FromSlate News


What Next TBD: How Spyware Mercenaries Hack Your Phone

FromSlate News

ratings:
Length:
33 minutes
Released:
Jul 23, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

This week, Amnesty International and a French journalism nonprofit named Forbidden Stories revealed that technology from a spyware firm called NSO Group is being deployed on a massive scale. The spyware, called Pegasus, gives the user access to every part of a victim’s smartphone -- notes, messages, photos, and recordings. 
What’s it like for security researchers to see their worst fears about digital spying play out? And what are they worried about next?
Guests:

John Scott Railton, Senior Researcher at the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto
Siddharth Varadarajan, Founding Editor of the Wire
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Released:
Jul 23, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

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