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FBI Buys Software to Enslave Your Phone
by Michael Dean Thompson
NSO Group is an Israeli firm started by former Israeli intelligence officers that produced some remarkably infamous software. The company’s software has become notorious for its use by governments with little regard for human rights violations against their own citizens. One of its products, Landmark, has ...
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