{"id":34611,"date":"2021-11-06T10:30:46","date_gmt":"2021-11-06T15:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=34611"},"modified":"2021-11-06T10:30:46","modified_gmt":"2021-11-06T15:30:46","slug":"trident-ctd-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/11\/06\/trident-ctd-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Trident, Ctd"},"content":{"rendered":"

Long-time readers may remember<\/a> the software, some call it malware<\/em>, created and distributed by NSO Group<\/em><\/strong> of Israel, which broke into phones, given a little help, aka phishing, by the phone’s owner. This was in 2016; now that it’s 2021, it appears the American response has been updated, as WaPo<\/strong><\/em> reports:<\/p>\n

The United States on Wednesday added the Israeli spyware company NSO Group to its \u201centity list,\u201d a federal blacklist prohibiting the company from receiving American technologies, after determining that its phone-hacking tools had been used by foreign governments to \u201cmaliciously target\u201d government officials, activists, journalists, academics and embassy workers around the world.<\/p>\n

The move is a significant sanction against a company spotlighted in July in an investigation by the global\u00a0Pegasus Project<\/a>\u00a0consortium, which includes The Washington Post and 16 other news organizations worldwide. The consortium published\u00a0dozens of articles<\/a>\u00a0detailing how NSO customers had misused its powerful spyware, Pegasus.<\/p>\n

The move could also raise tensions between the United States and Israel, where NSO is a prized technological powerhouse. Exports of NSO\u2019s software are regulated by Israel\u2019s Ministry of Defense, which must approve them as it would any weapons sale.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That last paragraph leaves me to wonder if the United States has misjudged the situation – or if Israel’s MoD<\/strong><\/em> has a problem, either of corruption or not in alignment with general liberal democracy goals.<\/p>\n

If Israel or NSO<\/strong><\/em> cannot find a way to take them off the list, NSO<\/em><\/strong> may gradually disintegrate:<\/p>\n

The entity list designation prohibits export from the United States to NSO of any type of hardware or software, severing the company from a vital source of technology. It could also hinder future business arrangements and challenge the firm\u2019s ability to work as an international company.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe impact is broader than just the legal prohibition,\u201d said Kevin Wolf, an international trade lawyer at the Akin Gump law firm who previously ran the entity list process. \u201cIt\u2019s a huge red flag.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Not that America is the only source of innovation, both in hardware and software – but Americans are a very significant source. If NSO<\/strong><\/em> is cut off from an important input source, the people who do the work may leave for greener pastures.<\/p>\n

Death by a thousand cuts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Long-time readers may remember the software, some call it malware, created and distributed by NSO Group of Israel, which broke into phones, given a little help, aka phishing, by the phone’s owner. This was in 2016; now that it’s 2021, it appears the American response has been updated, as WaPo \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34611"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34616,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34611\/revisions\/34616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}