Ronan Farrow ’04 on NSO Group, the Firm behind “the World’s Most Notorious Commercial Spyware”
The spyware technology Pegasus “can extract the contents of a phone, giving access to its texts and photographs, or activate its camera and microphone to provide real-time surveillance,” writes Ronan Farrow ’04 for the New Yorker. In a wide-ranging profile of NSO Group, the Israeli firm that developed Pegasus, Farrow pressed current and former employees of the firm on the sales and usage of their software, which has been linked to repressive regimes and is purportedly utilized by governments worldwide for espionage.
Post Date: 04-26-2022
Post Date: 04-26-2022