NSO Group iPhone Zero-Click, Zero-Day Exploit Captured in the Wild

Re:NSO Group iPhone Zero-Click, Zero-Day Exploit Captured in... by rnk on Friday September 08, 2023 @02:11PM (#37437229)

This is obviously a bad idea, private companies or individuals having the power to arrest people because they want to? Look at the recent few years of history in the US where multiple experienced and distinguished (at least by resume), members of the us govt, senators, reps, tried to subvert an elections, dozens of lawyers told them it was illegal, we have their email and texts telling them. That group still acted to do many illegal actions, lie about it, tried to cover it up. And they still deny any problems with their behavior and choices.

Private companies having arrest rights is just a nonstarter of an idea (putting it kindly).

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Re:NSO Group iPhone Zero-Click, Zero-Day Exploit Captured in... by goodluckchuck on Friday September 08, 2023 @04:31PM (#37439028)

If all of these government officials did something so terrible, wouldn’t that suggest that the government should be denied the power to arrest people?

I’m not suggesting that private individuals authority to should be expanded to allow for arrests, after reading many statutes and caselaw, it appears that there are many circumstances were private companies already do have that power, even if they do not exercise it very frequently.

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