Leaks Reveal Spyware Meant To Track Criminals Targeted Activists Instead

7/29/21 by NPR

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‘Washington Post’ reporter Craig Timberg explains how military-grade spyware licensed to governments and police departments has infiltrated the iPhones of journalists, activists and others. “It takes a story like this to help people understand how deeply enmeshed these tiny little computers have gotten into our lives,” Timberg says. “I still carry my iPhone everywhere I go … And the reality of that is that every time I do that, I’m exposing not just myself, but everyone I deal with to the possibility of spying by governments all over the world.”