NOTE: Al Jazeera has just published my latest piece on how the incoming Biden administration will address Israel, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Middle East issues in general. Please give it a read and promote it via social media. It in uncharacteristic of me to praise any technology executive or company. In fact, I have often […]
Israeli Police State Has Backdoor ISP Access to Every Citizen and Website, Cellebrite Claims to Break Signal App Encryption
Haaretz published two astonishing reports over the past few days about Israeli cyber-security. In the first. it broke a story noting that Israeli police have for years required all internet service providers (ISPs) to offer a backdoor to access the accounts of every Israeli citizen. In addition, police have similar access to every website and […]
NSO Group’s State-Sponsored Cyber-Warfare
There are a number of economic systems in the world today. There are market economies in capitalist countries and the state-owned means of production in socialist countries. In each of these systems, the state intervenes to a greater or lesser extent. Israel is nominally a capitalist economy (with a socialist past). But I prefer to […]
Spanish Intelligence Uses NSO Group Malware to Target Catalan Leaders, Federal Judge Refuses to Dismiss WhatsApp Suit Against NSO
Like Donald Trump, Israel’s premier cyber-spying firm has had a rough couple of weeks. Things began promisingly enough when an over-indulgent Israeli district court dismissed a lawsuit brought by Amnesty International on behalf one of its staff members whose phone was hacked by a Gulf state. The NGO correctly called the ruling “disgraceful:” “Today’s disgraceful […]
