<story><title>Poland’s PM says previous government illegally used Pegasus spyware</title><url>https://apnews.com/article/poland-government-pegasus-spyware-tusk-duda-78420fc7099401926d28b5be98669192</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>FirmwareBurner</author><text>&lt;i&gt;&amp;gt;Usage of Pegasus means all intercepts are on the servers in Israel&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Wait, seriously? Any sources on that? I find it hard to believe that any government would spend $$$ on a security tool that doesn&amp;#x27;t allow on-prem installation and instead beams all your surveillance to another country.</text></item><item><author>rasz</author><text>1 Over 7000 licenses for Pegasus alone. Both opposition and own party surveilled.&lt;p&gt;2 Usage of Pegasus means all intercepts are on the servers in Israel. All Government secrets and potential kompromat transferred to foreign power.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>surfingdino</author><text>NATO countries&amp;#x27; governments and military use phones with encrypted communications to which the US has the keys. This fact was made available during investigation into the Polish government plane crash in Smolensk. The US authorities have access to the recordings of the calls made by the late president of Poland, but said they would not make them available.&lt;p&gt;source: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.money.pl&amp;#x2F;archiwum&amp;#x2F;wiadomosci&amp;#x2F;artykul&amp;#x2F;usa;nie;ujawnia;tresci;rozmowy;braci;kaczynskich,110,0,642158.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.money.pl&amp;#x2F;archiwum&amp;#x2F;wiadomosci&amp;#x2F;artykul&amp;#x2F;usa;nie;uja...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Indirectly, all software vulnerability tools that send source code and other artefacts to servers outside government&amp;#x27;s control give third parties access to information about potential attack vectors, software vulnerabilities, and infrastructure layout.</text></comment>
<story><title>Poland’s PM says previous government illegally used Pegasus spyware</title><url>https://apnews.com/article/poland-government-pegasus-spyware-tusk-duda-78420fc7099401926d28b5be98669192</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>FirmwareBurner</author><text>&lt;i&gt;&amp;gt;Usage of Pegasus means all intercepts are on the servers in Israel&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Wait, seriously? Any sources on that? I find it hard to believe that any government would spend $$$ on a security tool that doesn&amp;#x27;t allow on-prem installation and instead beams all your surveillance to another country.</text></item><item><author>rasz</author><text>1 Over 7000 licenses for Pegasus alone. Both opposition and own party surveilled.&lt;p&gt;2 Usage of Pegasus means all intercepts are on the servers in Israel. All Government secrets and potential kompromat transferred to foreign power.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xemoka</author><text>I’m curious about this statement too, seems there’s evidence that they don’t and the customer is the data handler: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.edps.europa.eu&amp;#x2F;system&amp;#x2F;files_en?file=2023-01&amp;#x2F;0221_2022-0615_019_redacted.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.edps.europa.eu&amp;#x2F;system&amp;#x2F;files_en?file=2023-01&amp;#x2F;0221...&lt;/a&gt; top of page 4.&lt;p&gt;I guess this is all according to NSO claims. I’d like to see evidence otherwise!</text></comment>