You know the saddest part of this? ICE paid for that. If I made something that blocked that tool from working or even just made a knockoff that does the same thing, they would just seize it.
So that company has more rights and protections than actual humans do.
And that’s considered okay.
Citizens United strikes again.
Non-expert opinion: it’s dangerous.
Paragon’s “zero-click” Graphite program can quietly invade the mobile phone of its target and extract its contents, even from encrypted apps.
How? Screen scraping? That would involve installing malware on each phone.
Looks like they use 0-day exploits to indeed install spyware on targets
Meta shared information with WhatsApp that led them to identify, mitigate, and attribute a Paragon zero-click exploit. On January 31, 2025, WhatsApp sent notifications to approximately 90 WhatsApp accounts they believed were targeted with Paragon’s spyware, including journalists and members of civil society.
Um… one problem for Mr. NSA:
I don’t have friends. Zero groupchats. Don’t even have any mainsteam comms apps. Not even a Lemmy client (I use browser lmao). How am I supposed to get the .pdf?
😁
I mean if you’re a genuine target they’ll find a way.
(Also a nitpick, Paragon is originally an Israeli corporation, altho they do have an US division since 2021)
Its honestly going to get to the point where to rid yourself from The Eye of Sauron you’ll have to make the data centers defunct.
They also are buying the NSO group
Does Nokia still make a solid feature phone?
My biggest use case for a smartphone is MFA for work, so if I can convince them to give me a yubikey instead, I’d be interested.
Gestapo. They’re going to start kidnapping and killing whoever they feel like soon
I wonder when is EU gonna open up to US Refugees, right now they aren’t gonna take an American’s asylum claim seriously, I have yet to see any American actually been able to obtain political asylum in any western democratic country.
