{"id":8573,"date":"2023-01-11T11:37:40","date_gmt":"2023-01-11T10:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/11\/pegasus-by-laurent-richard-review-spyware-hiding-in-plain-sight\/"},"modified":"2023-01-11T11:37:40","modified_gmt":"2023-01-11T10:37:40","slug":"pegasus-by-laurent-richard-review-spyware-hiding-in-plain-sight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/11\/pegasus-by-laurent-richard-review-spyware-hiding-in-plain-sight\/","title":{"rendered":"Pegasus by Laurent Richard review \u2013 spyware hiding in plain sight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The story of how investigative journalists exposed the frightening abuse of software that can infect your phone<\/p>\n<p>When asked what superpower they would wish for, quite a lot of people choose invisibility. The desire to be able to spy unnoticed on others appeals to something in our nature: a wish for knowledge without retribution.<\/p>\n<p>The arrival of the mobile phone, and then the smartphone, has brought that power of invisible oversight to governments willing to pay the comparatively small cost \u2013 some millions of pounds \u2013 of licensing invasive software that will silently monitor a phone. The most popular one (that we know about) is called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/series\/pegasus-project\">Pegasus<\/a>, created by an Israeli company called NSO.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2023\/jan\/11\/pegasus-by-laurent-richard-review-spyware-hiding-in-plain-sight\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/91c31b73f7deedf352f8015e190ff71590aea4e1\/0_233_3500_2101\/master\/3500.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=eed5432ce0b1595a293d77f7b34d7323\" title=\"Pegasus by Laurent Richard review \u2013 spyware hiding in plain sight\" \/>The story of how investigative journalists exposed the frightening abuse of software that can infect your phone<br \/>\nWhen asked what superpower they would wish for, quite a lot of people choose invisibility. The desire to be able to spy unnoticed on others appeals to something in our nature: a wish for knowledge without retribution.<br \/>\nThe arrival of the mobile phone, and then the smartphone, has brought that power of invisible oversight to governments willing to pay the comparatively small cost \u2013 some millions of pounds \u2013 of licensing invasive software that will silently monitor a phone. The most popular one (that we know about) is called Pegasus, created by an Israeli company called NSO. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The story of how investigative journalists exposed the frightening abuse of software that can infect your phone When asked what superpower they would wish for, quite a lot of people choose invisibility. The desire to be able to spy unnoticed on others appeals to something in our nature: a wish for knowledge without retribution. The &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/11\/pegasus-by-laurent-richard-review-spyware-hiding-in-plain-sight\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pegasus by Laurent Richard review \u2013 spyware hiding in plain sight<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8574,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8573"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}