{"id":117110,"date":"2022-12-09T07:00:27","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T12:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=117110"},"modified":"2022-12-09T09:06:24","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T14:06:24","slug":"nyt-front-page-the-usa-strains-to-control-spyware-but-still-uses-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=117110","title":{"rendered":"(NYT front page) The USA Strains to Control Spyware, but Still Uses It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Biden administration took a public stand last year against the abuse of spyware to target human rights activists, dissidents and journalists: It blacklisted the most notorious maker of the hacking tools, the Israeli firm NSO Group.<\/p>\n<p>But the global industry for commercial spyware \u2014 which allows governments to invade mobile phones and vacuum up data \u2014 continues to boom. Even the U.S. government is using it.<\/p>\n<p>The Drug Enforcement Administration is secretly deploying spyware from a different Israeli firm, according to five people familiar with the agency\u2019s operations, in the first confirmed use of commercial spyware by the federal government.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, the use of spyware continues to proliferate around the world, with new firms \u2014 which employ former Israeli cyberintelligence veterans, some of whom worked for NSO \u2014 stepping in to fill the void left by the blacklisting. With this next generation of firms, technology that once was in the hands of a small number of nations is now ubiquitous \u2014 transforming the landscape of government spying.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/12\/08\/us\/politics\/spyware-nso-pegasus-paragon.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Over 10 weeks &amp; reporting in 5 countries, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarkMazzettiNYT?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MarkMazzettiNYT<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ronenbergman?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ronenbergman<\/a> &amp; I pieced together crucial elements of the new global arms race for offensive spyware, marketed by companies owned by former Israeli military intelligence officers. A <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/thread?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#thread<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fUzi2Rg8rC\">https:\/\/t.co\/fUzi2Rg8rC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Matina Stevis-Gridneff (@MatinaStevis) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MatinaStevis\/status\/1601150756706467840?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 9, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Biden administration took a public stand last year against the abuse of spyware to target human rights activists, dissidents and journalists: It blacklisted the most notorious maker of the hacking tools, the Israeli firm NSO Group. But the global<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=117110\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,168,144,119,151,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americau-s-a","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-foreign-relations","category-globalization","category-politics-in-general","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=117110"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117113,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117110\/revisions\/117113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}