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Apple Files Lawsuit Against NSO Group, Saying US Citizens Were Targets (reuters.com) 19

Posted by msmash from the tussle-continues dept.
Apple said on Tuesday it has filed a lawsuit against Israeli cyber firm NSO Group and its parent company OSY Technologies for alleged surveillance and targeting of U.S. Apple users with its Pegasus spyware. From a report: The iPhone maker said it is also seeking to ban NSO Group from using any Apple software, services or devices to prevent further abuse. Apple is the latest in a string of companies and governments to come after NSO, the maker of the Pegasus hacking tool that watchdog groups say targeted human rights workers and journalists.
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  • Cut off one head and two more will appear. Better to find the flaws in your OS before others do.

    • Probably impossible with the humongous size of current operating systems. It's going to remain a game of whack-a-mole, unless the industry goes back to basics and implements something much simpler, maybe microcontroller scale, that any single human being has a chance of being able to understand and review in its entirety.
      In other words, not going to happen.

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    • At least with our government, Apple is responding to a subpoena that purportedly has had judicial oversight.

    • Wasn't there an article here on Slashdot just a week or two ago saying that, out of all the tech giants, Apple hands over the most private information to law enforcement? I mean, okay, one is a foreign gov't... the other, our own law enforcement, but at the end of the day Apple isn't fooling anyone.

      No, there wasn't. Stop doing that "I heard x y and z" -- You know what, I can't guarantee that - forget I said it, crap.

      Apples PR is the only thing that binds them to doing what they say - if and when they go against it, it would be EVERYWHERE (as well it should be if that ever happens)

      At the end of the day, there's what someone says and proof otherwise - there's no proof otherwise YET, which makes this SNL sketch of yours less funny

  • What legal basis does Apple have for claiming NSO doesn't have a right to spy on their customers?
  • Don't be hard on msmash for this repost from 3 months ago, reposting the same thing within a week is easy, reposting the same thing 3 months apart takes dedication. https://m.slashdot.org/story/3... [slashdot.org]
  • Can we sue the US for targeting non-us citizens? How does it feel to be betrayed and watched by allies?
  • ...is whether anyone is paying attention to the connections between NSO/OSY and the Israeli state. It's not a great look to have American companies put in the position of gatekeeping whether foreign surveillance of USPersons is okay or not.

  • The targets were the customers not Apple. The fact that NSO did it via Apple products seems little more than coincidental.

  • I don't see how Apple can have standing to sue. The injured parties, if any, are the individual users of Apple products. Apple has not been injured. Unless I'm missing something, this lawsuit will be quickly dismissed for lack of standing.

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