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Re:iMessage, Apple Music used by NSO Pegasus to attack journ... by meepmorp on Monday July 19, 2021 @11:28AM (#27883701)
It is paranoid for the average person to think they're sufficiently interesting to be a surveillance target.
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Re:iMessage, Apple Music used by NSO Pegasus to attack journ... by Karunamon on Monday July 19, 2021 @11:34AM (#27883755)
Passive surveillance being a thing means everyone reading this text is a target.
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Re:iMessage, Apple Music used by NSO Pegasus to attack journ... by sneak on Monday July 19, 2021 @11:48AM (#27883933)
Everyone in the global west (and China, and Russia) is subject to mass surveillance. That's documented fact, not paranoia.
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Re:iMessage, Apple Music used by NSO Pegasus to attack journ... by heavyset_go on Monday July 19, 2021 @05:24PM (#27887425)
We aren't in the 1970's. It's cheap and easy to do dragnet surveillance, and it costs a fraction of a cent to store text communications and to perform speech-to-text on audio and video.

You don't have to be interesting, you just need to exist to be caught up in the dragnet.

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