The New Yorker Magazine (№ 25th April & 2nd May 2022) by David Remnick (Editor In Chief)

Author:David Remnick (Editor In Chief) [Remnick, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: culture, politics, art, jounalism, magazine, non-fiction
Publisher: Conde Nast
Published: 2022-04-24T14:00:00+00:00

ious considerations including the se-

curity clearance of the product and

assessment of the country toward which

the product will be marketed. Human

rights, policy, and security issues are all

taken into consideration.”) After the

blacklisting of NSO, Hulio sought to

enlist Israeli officials, including Prime

Minister Naftali Bennett and Defense

Minister Benny Gantz. “I sent a let-

ter,” he told me. “I said that as a regu-

lated company, you know, everything

that we have ever asked was with the

permission, and with the authority, of

the government of Israel.” But a senior

Biden Administration official said that

the Israelis raised only “pretty mild

complaints” about the blacklisting.

“They didn’t like it, but we didn’t have

a standoff.”

In Israel’s legislature, Arab politi-

“ You still have to choose which chef you want to prepare your food.”

cians are leading a modest movement

to examine the state’s relationship with

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NSO. The Arab party leader Sami Abou

Shahadeh told me, “We tried to discuss

this in the Knesset twice . . . to tell the But such claims are difficult to verify. system then runs with only limited con-Israeli politicians, You are selling death “NSO wanted Western Europe mainly nection to NSO in Israel.

to very weak societies that are in con-

so they can tell guys like you, Here’s a

But NSO engineers concede that

flict, and you’ve been doing this for too European example,” the former Israeli there is some real-time monitoring of long.” He added, “It never worked, be-intelligence official, who now works in systems to prevent unauthorized tam-cause, first and morally, they don’t see the spyware sector, said. “But most of pering with or theft of their technol-any problem with that.” Last fall, an in-

their business is subsidized by the Saudi ogy. And the former employee said, of vestigation by the watchdog group Front Arabias of the world.” The former em-Hulio’s assurances that NSO is techni-

Line Defenders identified Pegasus in-

ployee, who had knowledge of NSO’s cally prevented from overseeing the sys-fections on the phones of six Palestin-

sales efforts, said, “For a European coun-

tem, “That’s a lie.” The former employee

ian activists—including one whose Je-

try, they would charge ten million dol-

recalled support and maintenance ef-

rusalem residency status had been lars. And for a country in the Middle forts that involved remote access by revoked. Abou Shahadeh argued that East they could charge, like, two hun-NSO, with the customer’s permission

the history of Israel’s spyware technol-

dred and fifty million for the same prod-

and live oversight. “There is remote ac-

ogy is tied to the surveillance of Pales-

uct.” This seemed to create perverse in-

cess,” the former employee added. “They

tinian communities in the West Bank, centives: “When they understood that can see everything that goes on. They East Jerusalem, and Gaza. “They have they had misuse in those countries that have access to the database, they have a huge laboratory,” he told me. “When they sold to for enormous amounts of access to all of the data.” The senior Eu-they were using all the same tools for a money, then the decision to shut down ropean law-enforcement official told long time to spy on Palestinian citizens, the service for that specific country be-me, “They can have remote access to

nobody cared.

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