The Spy in Your Phone | Al Jazeera World

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Publicado 2021-01-06
In mid-2020, a mobile phone belonging to an Al Jazeera Arabic investigative team was hacked. Over the next few months, reporter Tamer Almisshal and the Canadian research group Citizen Lab investigated Pegasus, the sophisticated spyware used.

Pegasus is manufactured by an Israeli technology company called the NSO Group and is among the most advanced spyware in the world. It can access and infiltrate a smartphone without the owner clicking a link, opening an email or even answering their phone - meaning it can go undetected.

This investigation exposes how Pegasus works, how governments like Saudi Arabia and the UAE have bought the hugely expensive spyware and how it has been used beyond the stated intentions of the NSO Group of “developing technology to prevent and investigate terror and crime” - including to target journalists.

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  • @pi5549
    I've been consistently impressed with Al Jazeera's reporting. Please keep up the good work.
  • @assassinsrequiem
    This whole design started when the battery of your phone was no longer removable.
  • @deeqmohamud2050
    We purchase the phone with our own money but other people are in control of it
  • @Jizzlewobbwtfcus
    Smart phones are not a necessity...they are a convenience to weaken people. I'm proud to not own one. Superb documentary. Respect from the UK
  • @gottliebdee263
    Part of the problem is companies like Apple designing a phone that doesn't allow you to properly turn it off.
  • @r_shinde_
    It is very critical issue and should be exposed for protect privacy purposes and each and every human rights.
  • @joeybenoit6269
    If you really knew what the CIA the FBI the NSA department of Justice and all the other departments were doing you would cry!
  • It should be a national issue. If a country can be held accountable as a sponsor of terror, a country should he held liable for companies distributing spyware and malware.
  • @apollomwa
    National Security and prevention of terrorism are the greatest pretexts that governments use to violate human rights of their citizens.
  • @elizeleroux6388
    Al Jazeera is the best news reports, because they genuinely have true stuff
  • @finspynet
    probably one of the few people who's worth listening to. The amount of stuff this guy has managed to execute or set in motion is probably unmatched in the entire human history
  • @analiza265
    Like everything spyware is good or bad depending on who's spying and who's being spied on. Spying on innocent civilians in order to manipulate them in some way is evil.
  • @NooradinHurdaye1
    Who ever hackes my phone will only see me watching useless YouTube videos
  • I wonder if it would be legal to have a list of servers published so people could download it? Putting the list on the phone's firewall would probably not work, since Pegasus could simply kill that list as it's able to do anything on the phone. Perhaps the telecom companies, or maybe even users themselves, can configure blocklists on their devices to automatically deny access to those addresses. Maybe something like the DNS infrastructure for automating updates?
  • @Starasmr2323
    Very worrying. Makes you want to get rid of your phone and any electronic devices🤷🏻‍♀️
  • @Mary-il6zz
    And on top of it all, we PAY to be spied on!!!