US puts NSO Group on trade blacklist

Re:US puts NSO Group on trade blacklist by miohtama on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @12:38PM (#29097028)

> NSO Group just specifically got too toxic

It would never have happened without good Western journalism. Basically NSO was allowed to operate unless they screw up. Which they did with all the scandals, making Israeli look like crooks.

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Re:US puts NSO Group on trade blacklist by Fnoord on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @02:23PM (#29098467)

I'd put the attribution mainly on Citizen Lab [1], and they're not what I'd call Western journalism. Without them, there would've been nothing to report on. Ie. they did the technical research, and the funding behind such technical researchers.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizen_Lab

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Re:US puts NSO Group on trade blacklist by wizzwizz4 on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @02:43PM (#29098700)

I considered Citizen Lab journalists when they came out with this. Highly-technical investigative journalists, maybe, but they were doing investigative journalism.

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