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teekert on July 4, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Digital Violence: How the NSO Group Enables State ...

The story about the cam and mic being activated suggests some deeper hacking of Android and iOS themselves? I agree some more technical details would have been nice.

Edit: Was meant as reply to noduerme

rapsey on July 4, 2021 [–]

They use android/ios zero days. They have root on the system.

Ygg2 on July 4, 2021 | [–]

These are state actors, for all we know they might even have their own personal Android backdoor.

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