Emmanuel Macron identified in leaked Pegasus project data

This is great news. The more people in power have been hit, the more repercussions we can hope for.<p>One possible way to force a bit of scrutiny upon NSO group would be to crowdfund an Pegasus subscription and use it against Netanyahu.<p>Any serious suggestions what we can do to ensure that in the long run there will be less and not more &quot;Hacking for hire&quot; companies lending their tools for use against journalists and the opposition?<p>Shit will really hit the fan when the &quot;ransomware as a service&quot; discovers the &quot;targeted surveillance as a service&quot; business model.. Interesting times to be alive.

&gt; Robert Malley, a longtime American diplomat who was chief negotiator on the US-Iran deal, and who appears to have been selected as a person of interest by Morocco in 2019. NSO has said its government clients are prevented from deploying its software against US numbers because it has been made “technically impossible”.<p>Is there more info about why this is technically impossible or is it just their PR way of saying &quot;sorry, the day we do this we&#x27;re screwed as a company&quot;?

This looks like a shocking news, but there are probably hundreds of countries that are trying to tap on the French and other presidents.<p>This is just the moroccan gov that is too incompetent to do it by themselves but have to use a third party consulting firm for the job.<p>And so, there will be no consequence, because all the other governments know very well that they are dirty too, so there will just be a few soft offense word and then trying to have the population forget as fast as possible...

Interesting that in one recent article NSO claimed they had no control or information about who their customers targeted with their software and in this article they insist Macron was definitely not a target of any of their customers...

This will likely not result in much, EXCEPT for in Morocco. If the King and Prime Minister believe that their own security forces were spying on them, well, that might result in some consequences for them...

Not only Macron, but also Charles Michel of the EU. By the same Morrocan government.<p>&gt; Charles Michel, the president of the European Council, who appears to have been chosen as a person of interest by Morocco in 2019, when he was prime minister of Belgium.

Any word yet on where we can see the full list? I have some friends that may qualify and it would be nice to see how close I am to this mess. They should just get on with it and release the data instead of dragging it out for clicks and ad impressions.

So, who stands behind the hack? Scary Russians?

I would assume the president of a country like France would not use a common Android or iPhone with WhatsApp and I message, dont they have special blackberries like in the US?

Given they’d never admit to it and that the phone number showed up, it’s very likely

This is like the biggest non issue ever. If governments did not what this type of thing to happen just make an example of of the ceo&#x2F;leaders of this company and raise the stakes of all future terrorists. Espionage for hire should be a capitol offense.

How come it’s all crickets at Apple when it comes to this?

The French have a pretty dirty history of spying on &quot;friendly allies&quot;, too, including European competitors to Airbus&#x2F;Dassault.