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Biden’s Executive Order on Commercial Spyware
The Lawfare Podcast
The Executive Order on Spyware
In order to conduct a cyber operation, say you want to spy on someone by hacking their phone, you need four separate things. Most governments don't have all four of these components and even when they do, it's hard to hold on to them. So building and deploying these capabilities is both difficult and expensive. Western governments absolutely purchase spyware and vulnerabilities from private organizations. But others like NSO, more end to end spyware companies, bundle them all up together in and end-to-end spyware solution. You pay NSO group a licensing fee for a year and they train you how to use the product and it's practically point and click. And that's what the executive
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