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Police and intelligence services in Serbia are using advanced mobile forensics products and previously unknown spyware to illegally surveil journalists, environmental campaigners and civil rights activists, according to a report.

The report shows how mobile forensic products from the Israeli firm Cellebrite are used to unlock and extract data from individuals’ mobile devices, which are being infected with a new Android spyware system, NoviSpy.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago

Oh, great, my country is in the news again. Oh, wait, it's bad news, again. Here's some better news: the students have blocked all the universities and other people are joining the protests in hopes of overthrowing the authoritarian regime. The corruption has reached peak levels and is actually killing people. The government is doing it's best to stay in power, but no real, mass violence has been applied just yet. People have given up on elections because they are demonstrably fixed and can't change anything. I don't know how this will end.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Israel sells surveillance software to everyone. That’s probably their main source foreign currency besides the worst hummus at any grocery.

This isn’t anti-semitism, for the record. I’m criticizing Israel’s IT sector, specifically (and Sabra), for being too focused on selling zero-day exploits to police and spy agencies. It’s despicable and needs to be stopped or we’re all worse off. All zero-day viruses discovered by any government agency should be reported immediately to the company. Especially in a “democracy.” But especially in a democracy.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Here's a source for visualizing Israel's exports, ranked by value

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

I never in a million years would have guessed Israel's chief export was diamonds..

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

It's true, Sabra's zero-day exploits must be stopped!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Oh great. They have not even finished conquering the middle east, abd already they are messing with our country.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

authority

illegally

authority: "but I am the law"