For anyone wanting to catch up on the Pegasus drama so far—or for politicians, journalists or CEOs wondering how best to calibrate their paranoia—this book is a good place to start
, a Saudi journalist murdered and dismembered by his own government in its consulate in Istanbul in 2018.
In “Pegasus” Laurent Richard and Sandrine Rigaud of Forbidden Stories tell of how they turned the leak into an exposé. The book offerswhich, like so many Israeli startups, is stuffed with geeks who honed their skills in the army. It explains the technical basics and Pegasus’s growing sophistication. Early versions of the malware relied on users clicking on links in text messages, a hit-and miss strategy; subsequent versions were able to infect phones without any user interaction.
But the book is more a journalistic memoir than a technical analysis of Pegasus, or a profile of its creators. The authors describe a mix of excitement and paranoia after obtaining the list. They draw attention to a growing trend in journalism: leaks so enormous that several outlets have to work together to check and make sense of them.
The book is not perfect. The character sketches can feel a bit repetitive. Sometimes the authors go too far down rabbit holes or stray into airport-thriller-style hyperbole. And although it mentions several of’s less well-known—and less publicity-hungry—competitors, readers may feel that more pages could have been spent outlining the size and rapid growth of the
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