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Pegasus : How a Spy in Your Pocket Threatens the End of Privacy, Dignity, and Democracy by Laurent Richard; Sandrine Rigaud; Rachel Maddow is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Pegasus : How a Spy in Your Pocket Threatens the End of Privacy, Dignity, and Democracy about?
Featuring an introduction by Rachel Maddow, Pegasus: How a Spy in Our Pocket Threatens the End of Privacy, Dignity, and Democracy is the behind-the-scenes story of one of the most sophisticated and invasive surveillance weapons ever created, used by governments around the world. Pegasus is widely regarded as the most effective and sought-after cyber-surveillance system on the market. The system's creator, the NSO Group, a private corporation headquartered in Israel, is not shy about proclaiming its ability to thwart terrorists and criminals. "Thousands of people in Europe owe their lives to hundreds of our company employees," NSO's cofounder declared in 2019. This bold assertion may be true, at least in part, but it's by no means the whole story. NSO's Pegasus system has not been limited to catching bad guys. It's also been used to spy on hundreds, and maybe thousands, of innocent people around the world: heads of state, diplomats, human rights defenders, political opponents, and journalists. This spyware is as insidious as it is invasive, capable of infecting a private cell phone without alerting the owner, and of doing its work in the background, in silence, virtually undetecta
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- Author
- Laurent Richard; Sandrine Rigaud; Rachel Maddow
- Publisher
- Henry Holt and Company
- Published
- 2023
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781250858689
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Political Science, Government & Politics, Social_sciences
- Rating
- 4.5 / 5 (256 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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