<story><title>U.S. State Department phones hacked with Israeli company spyware</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/technology/exclusive-us-state-department-phones-hacked-with-israeli-company-spyware-sources-2021-12-03/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>walrus01</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m waiting for the day that the US declares a foreign corporation as an &amp;quot;enemy combatant&amp;quot;, as they have done with foreign citizen wahabbist jihadis and US citizens such as Anwar Al-Awlaki.&lt;p&gt;Given the extent and depth of US-Israeli cooperation and ties, the precedeing theoretical is probably going to remain in the realm of theoretical.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fmajid</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s pretty much what they did with NSO, which is getting the Huawei treatment:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theregister.com&amp;#x2F;2021&amp;#x2F;11&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;us_sanctions_spyware&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theregister.com&amp;#x2F;2021&amp;#x2F;11&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;us_sanctions_spyware&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;reportedly, this has created havoc on NSO, since for instance none of the cloud providers can sell services to them to host their zero-days, among other logistics headaches. Their recently hired CEO resigned.</text></comment>
<story><title>U.S. State Department phones hacked with Israeli company spyware</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/technology/exclusive-us-state-department-phones-hacked-with-israeli-company-spyware-sources-2021-12-03/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>walrus01</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m waiting for the day that the US declares a foreign corporation as an &amp;quot;enemy combatant&amp;quot;, as they have done with foreign citizen wahabbist jihadis and US citizens such as Anwar Al-Awlaki.&lt;p&gt;Given the extent and depth of US-Israeli cooperation and ties, the precedeing theoretical is probably going to remain in the realm of theoretical.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>drusepth</author><text>Didn&amp;#x27;t they get pretty close with Huawei when the previous president issued an executive order in response to state spying fears that:&lt;p&gt;* banned the sale of any of their phones or networking products in the US&lt;p&gt;* banned US companies selling product to Huawei&lt;p&gt;* cut funding to wireless carriers using Huawei equipment&lt;p&gt;...and then pressured allied countries to do the same?</text></comment>