928
"Nothing will fundamentally change." twitter.com/CNBC/status/14…
929
The ability to invisibly hack your phone is being sold to countries at the red-hot intersection of a Venn Diagram between “desperately craves the tools of oppression” and “sorely lacks the sophistication to produce them domestically.”
Why is it legal?
edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/ns-oh-god-ho…
930
Politifact: True ✔️
gizmodo.com/snowden-people…
931
Look, @Apple has so much money that they literally don't know what to do with it — like $190 billion cash on hand. They could launch a Manhattan Project to secure the future of personal devices, rather than just keeping pace with industry.
Think different, guys. Revolutionize! twitter.com/Snowden/status…
932
Apple's financials citing these numbers are available at the bottom of this page: apple.com/newsroom/2021/…
933
Apple today: "In 3 months, we spent $10 billion on dividends and $66b on stock buybacks."
Sure sounds like a good time to commit $10b to improving iOS security, since companies are selling iPhone hacks for less than your lunch money to actual murderers:
washingtonpost.com/technology/202…
934
Looks like Novalpina Capital's investment in the NSO Group is going well:
news.sky.com/story/pegasus-…
935
Every newspaper in America should be saying this. twitter.com/ACLU/status/14…
936
Daniel Hale, one of the great American Whistleblowers, was just moments ago sentenced to four years in prison. His crime was telling this truth: 90% of those killed by US drones are bystanders, not the intended targets.
He should have been given a medal. twitter.com/FreedomofPress…
937
Powerful: "For us to cede to governments and corporations the legal right to invade and take over our phones is to voluntarily submit ourselves to being violated." theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
938
"The text made no sound. It produced no image. It offered no warning of any kind as an iMessage delivered malware directly onto her phone — and past Apple’s security systems." edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/ns-oh-god-ho…
939
If we don’t do anything to stop the sale of this technology, it’s not just going to be 50,000 targets: It’s going to be 50 million targets, and it’s going to happen much more quickly than any of us expect.
edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/ns-oh-god-ho…
940
how dare you twitter.com/Variety/status…
941
If you want to see Microsoft have a heart attack, talk about defining legal liability for bad code in a commercial product. To give Facebook nightmares, talk about making it legally liable for leaks of their unnecessarily collected personal records. edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/ns-oh-god-ho…
942
This will be the future: a world of people too busy playing with their phones to notice that someone else controls them.
edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/ns-oh-god-ho…
943
Whether we like it or not, adversaries and allies share a common environment, and with each passing day, we become increasingly dependent on devices that run a common code.
edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/ns-oh-god-ho…
944
The NSO Group is running a disinformation campaign to undermine the Pegasus Project—because of course they are—but @amnesty just demolished it: twitter.com/AmnestyTech/st…
945
This is very much worth reading. Daniel Hale did a brave and important thing for the United States, and what is being done to him in response is a national disgrace. nymag.com/intelligencer/…
946
@rj_gallagher You do know Amnesty & Citizenlab actually examined phones whose numbers were on the list and found forensic evidence of Pegasus, right? Pretty irresponsible to amplify an obviously false statement.
947
Contrast the @washingtonpost's half-hearted editorial, suggesting with downcast eyes that Israel and Saudi Arabia could perhaps stamp a few more papers before next murdering one of their columnists, with the Guardian invoking moratorium and liability: theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
948
Imagine having your columnist *murdered* and responding with a whispered appeal for the architects of that murder to fill out more paperwork next time. twitter.com/Snowden/status…
949
This is not a maximalist position, it is simply realism. You aren't even breathing the same air as a strong position until you reach criminal liability for involvement in the trade.
950
Let me be clear: export regulations, licensing, and reviews have been in place for years. They did not work, and cannot work.
A moratorium on the trade in intrusion software is the bare minimum for a credible response—mere triage. Anything less and the problem gets worse. twitter.com/Snowden/status…
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