Pegasus is Just the Tip of the Israeli Cyber Spying Iceberg, with Whitney Webb

Pegasus is Just the Tip of the Israeli Cyber Spying Iceberg, with Whitney Webb

Author: MintPress News July 23, 2021 Duration: 50:34
Edward Snowden has called it “the story of the year.” An Israeli spying company has been caught selling software to authoritarian regimes that have used it to surveil more than 50,000 people worldwide. That company is NSO, founded in 2010 by former members of Unit 8200, the Israeli military’s notorious intelligence squad. Their product is called Pegasus, and it was sold to military, law enforcement, and intelligence agencies in 40 countries, among them some of the world’s worst human rights a...

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