Pegasus is a tool that extracts information from smartphones. It can also reverse itself and turn your phone into a recording device to record you. The first client of NSO was the government of Mexico, which at the time dealt with a major problem of narco traffickers.
A little over a decade ago, a small Israeli company created what would become the world’s most powerful and notorious hacking tool.
Mark Mazzetti, who is a Washington investigative correspondent for The Times, explains the surprising story of the NSO Group and why, despite banning its technology, the United States kept trying to use it.
Guest: Mark Mazzetti, a Washington investigative correspondent for The New York Times.
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