Italy admits hacking activists with Israeli spyware
www.haaretz.com
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An Italian parliamentary committee has confirmed that the government used the Israeli-made spyware Graphite, developed by the offensive cyber company Paragon, to hack the smartphones of several activists working with migrants.

The committee confirmed that Paragon provided Graphite to two Italian agencies, including the country’s external intelligence service, starting in 2023. The version of Graphite provided did not include the ability to activate the phone’s microphone or camera, the report said. Instead, it only enabled its operators access to encrypted communications on the hacked devices.

The report also confirmed that Graphite exploited a vulnerability in WhatsApp that Meta identified and patched in December 2024, one month before the spyware’s activity was publicly disclosed. The vulnerability’s discovery also caused “panic” at Israel’s military intelligence Unit 8200, according to the recent Israeli television report.

  • FireIced@lemmy.super.ynh.fr
    23·
    1 年前

    You’re taking the USA as an example, and we all know the current situation is really fucking bad and not comparable to other western countries.

    Your “freedom” to “speech” and “democracy” are constrained within a clearly drawn boundary, the boundary of which is drawn by the ruling class.

    Sure, it is, but my point is that it’s less restricted.

    Notice how a Westerner does not risk anything by truly believing in and expressing things like “china censorship bad arabs/muslims are dirty terrorist scum and need to be wiped off the map these russian orcs need to be wiped off the planet”, but a non-Westerner risks absolutely everything by even slightly hinting at a criticism towards Western imperialism/wanting better conditions at the cost of the ruling class, perhaps even in their own damn fucking country

    That’s just a massive lie. It doesn’t work this way, unless maybe you’re in a far-right wing country like the USA rn. I’m in France and we have a lot of far-left people, communists and stuff, none of them are in jail. Saying such things as “bad arabs/muslims are dirty terrorist scum and need to be wiped off the map these russian orcs need to be wiped off the planet” would clearly get you in trouble, especially the “bad arabs/muslims are dirty terrorist scum” because it can’t be argued that you were only talking about soldiers etc…

    Any other country outside the West engaging in censorship is either a) a dog of the West or b) protecting itself from fully succumbing into being a dog of the West.

    Yea sure, it’s only “you’re with, or against us”. No in-between. haha

    I’ll just stop here because there’s no point in this discussion and I feel like I’m just talking to a tankie, member of lemmygrad and hexbear, that hopped on its alt account.