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Biden Administration Blacklists NSO Group over Pegasus Spyware (therecord.media) 18

The United States on Wednesday added the Israeli spyware company NSO Group to its "entity list," a federal blacklist prohibiting the company from receiving some American technologies, after determining the company's phone-hacking tools had been used by foreign governments to "maliciously target government officials, journalists, businesspeople, activists, academics, and embassy workers." From a report: The move is a significant sanction against a company spotlighted in July by the global Pegasus Project consortium, including The Washington Post and 16 other news organizations worldwide. The consortium published dozens of articles detailing misuse of the Pegasus spyware by customers of NSO. The Commerce Department said in a statement that the action is part of the Biden administration's "efforts to put human rights at the center of U.S. foreign policy, including by working to stem the proliferation of digital tools used for repression." The U.S. has also added Israel's Candiru, Russian security firm Positive Technologies, and Singapore-based Computer Security Initiative Consultancy to the entity list.
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Biden Administration Blacklists NSO Group over Pegasus Spyware

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  • about time (Score:5, Insightful)

    by awwshit ( 6214476 ) on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @11:12AM (#61954331)

    It's about time we treated these kind of tools like the toxic waste that they are.

    • They're not exactly shy about it. Do you expect "candiru" to be something good? (If you don't know what a candiru is, look it up. But don't say I didn't warn you. And don't do an image search, ever)

    • There is nothing said, that they would not use them themselves. And illegal is just one direction of technology flow. So it is far from enough. Nothing more than populistic move.
  • Don't you mean "Deny Lists"?

    I thought that blacklist/whitelist was no longer PC ;)

  • Pegasus' US competitors are trying to eliminate the competition in the US.

  • by smooth wombat ( 796938 ) on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @12:11PM (#61954539) Journal

    Apparently it's only when a company allows dictators to spy on opponents that the U.S. is concerned. When it's the Israeli government doing it to enable its apartheid, no big deal.

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