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Re:WhatsApp sues NSO Group for allegedly helping spies hack ... by dang on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @08:56PM (#21393663)
The article title is "WhatsApp sues Israel's NSO for allegedly helping spies hack phones around the world", which exceeds HN's 80 char limit, so it had to be shortened somehow. The submitted title was "WhatsApp sues Israel's NSO for allegedly helping hack phones around the world". I changed that to "WhatsApp sues NSO for allegedly helping spies hack phones around the world" because it seemed to me that the "spies" bit adds more information than the "Israel's" bit. There's a difference between "helping hack" and "helping spies hack".

For completeness, I do think the commenters pointing out a slightly nonstandard weirdness in the phrase "Israel's NSO"—like the one comparing to "America's Google"—have a fair point. (Exercise for the curious: have there ever been many titles like that?) But it was not the determining factor.

Re:WhatsApp sues NSO Group for allegedly helping spies hack ... by notacoward on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @08:08AM (#21396766)
NSO founders' ties to the Israeli government are a bit more essential to their business than the Google example. See also the China examples from another commenter. I'll bet there are examples of "Russian company XYZ" as well. In cases like these, the nationality of the company and especially of its former-unit-8200 founders does seem rather germane.
Re:WhatsApp sues NSO Group for allegedly helping spies hack ... by quickthrower2 on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @09:46PM (#21393911)
Until I read the article, I assumed "NSO" would be a US government three letter agency. But hard to convey it is a company too in 80 chars I guess.
Re:WhatsApp sues NSO Group for allegedly helping spies hack ... by catalogia on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @03:30AM (#21395322)
The way the name "NSO" sounds like a government intelligence agency reminds me of the way "United States Chamber of Commerce" also confuses people: https://0x0.st/zYWr.png
Re:WhatsApp sues NSO Group for allegedly helping spies hack ... by pnako on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @03:00AM (#21395236)
>Exercise for the curious: have there ever been many titles like that?

I found a few "China's Huawei", "China's Tencent" and "China's Baidu".

Re:WhatsApp sues NSO Group for allegedly helping spies hack ... by rimliu on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @08:01AM (#21396716)
So it could as well be "WhatsApp sues Israel's NSO for allegedly helping spies hack phones".