• Russia appears to be targeting journalists with spyware known as Pegasus.

  • Pegasus is a “zero-click” software, hacking phones by sending texts that don’t need to be opened.

  • The software has targeted dozens of journalists, activists, and politicians in recent years.

  • @Nabs@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    Now inform everyone else that other countries are targeting with pegasus

    *edit: spelling

    • chiisana
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      282 years ago

      They do, and they’ve shared the counter measure (lockdown mode) with the world.

      If a nation state will individually target someone, they don’t need to doom scroll on insta (nor do they need to). Locking down the phone to the bare minimum for these kind of people is the appropriate level of response.

        • chiisana
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          52 years ago

          I don’t know Android. Sorry. Doesn’t locking down to very very limited hardened features goes against everything Android is (highly flexible customizable for power users who’d want to do that kind of stuff)?

          • @crossal@lemmy.world
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            12 years ago

            If the feature can be turned on and off by the user then I don’t think it goes against anything right, they’d still have the power?🤔 but locking down everything doesnt seem like a great fix for the average user. Bug fixes should be the real fix