Pegasus: a weapon for dictators according to the Israeli press
Headquarters of the Israeli start-up NSO whose Pegasus software is accused of having spied on 50,000 phones, some of which belong to journalists or activists.
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No official reaction to revelations about the use of Israeli software Pegasus for government surveillance of human rights activists, political activists and journalists around the world.
The media are bouncing back on this affair.
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With our correspondent in Jerusalem,
Michel Paul
It is the economic daily
The Marker
which publishes in Israel
the details of the investigation
carried out by 17 world newsrooms.
For the newspaper, cyber espionage is the perfect weapon for dictators of all kinds.
Rifles and tanks look bad in the photos.
But cybertechnology is transparent and easy to deny, continues the daily.
Same tone for
Yediot Aharonot
columnist
who talks about an Israeli failure. New technology is the engine that drives the Israeli economy forward, the newspaper writes. But the NSO start-up is the flip side. Israel's foreign and defense ministries should have sounded the alarm and pointed out that the transactions of the company that developed the Pegasus malware have long had nothing to do with combating it. terrorism.
The daily
Haaretz
, him, underlines it: "
In rare cases, but which exist nonetheless, journalists hacked by the Pegasus have been killed after being chosen as targets
".
And according to other articles NSO is not alone, several other Israeli groups are engaged in the same kinds of activities.
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