This podcast episode delves into the controversial Israeli company NSO and its powerful surveillance spyware, Pegasus. The episode reveals the origins of NSO, tracing its roots to the Israeli military and highlighting the ominous misuse of Pegasus by governments around the world. Pegasus's capability to penetrate smartphones and extract data has raised concerns, with reports of its use in targeting journalists, dissidents, and even the associates of murdered reporter Jamal Khashoggi. Despite the international outcry and blacklisting of NSO by the Biden administration, the episode uncovers the ongoing efforts by NSO to market its tools to American agencies and the continued use of its spyware by the US government, raising questions about the accountability and regulation of such powerful technologies.
