I can tell you that we've checked and we have a lot of ways to check and I can

guarantee to you our technology was not used on Jamal Khashoggi or his relatives

or the dissidents like Omar Abdul Aziz and I'm not going to get into

specific and tell you that if we will figure out that somebody is misused the

system we will shut down the system immediately we have the right to do it and

we have the technology to do it it begs the question did you shut down the

Saudis I'm not going to talk about customers and I'm not going to go into

specific we do what we need to do we help create a safer world that's an excerpt

from a 2019 60 minutes interview with Chavel Julio then the CEO of the NSO

group an Israeli cyber firm that's gotten quite a bit of unwanted publicity

in recent years the NSO group formed in staff by ex-Cyber Wizards of the

Israeli Defense Forces markets a powerful cyberware tool called Pegasus that

can penetrate the iPhones of anybody in the world and download all their data

without leaving a trace you don't even have to click on a malware link for

Pegasus to suck up every tiny detail of your existence your emails your text

messages your contacts and your calendar showing who you're planning to have

dinner with tomorrow evening the NSO group says it markets Pegasus to foreign

governments to help them track terrorists and drug traffickers but is Ronald

Debert who runs the University of Toronto citizen lab has discovered Pegasus

has been used by regimes around the world to target dissidents journalists and

human rights activists leading to among other horrors the 2018 assassination

of Saudi journalist Jamal Kishoggi as Debert writes in a new article in Far

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