Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos' security consultant Gavin De Becker all but pointed his finger at a $1 billion Israeli intelligence company.
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Some of that spyware comes from NSO Group, an Israeli company valued at $1 billion that sells technology that can track texts, emails, calls, apps and location data from"the air without leaving a trace," according to a New York Times investigation. But as it turns out, tracking people's cell phones is a well-established practice, and the technology behind it — known as"lawful intercept spyware" — is a $12 billion industry.While De Becker stopped short of asserting how Saudi Arabia accessed Bezos' phone, his op-ed linked out to a
Since then, the company has helped Saudi Arabia"track its adversaries," helped Mexico"hunt drug kingpins," and made millions of dollars doing similar work for dozens of different governments, according to an investigation by the Times.
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