Pegasus is military-grade spyware sold at incredible expense to nation-states, governments, and agencies, ostensibly to fight crime and terrorism, but reports say it`s being abused by authoritarian regimes against journalists and dissidents.
It can be implanted onto iPhones and Android phones by targeted one-click social engineering attacks like spear-phishing, or more recently, no-click payloads in messages. At which point it`s… spyware on.
Now, Pegasus isn`t known to have been used on phones registered on U.S. cellular networks, though it may have been used on U.S. citizens with phones registered on networks in other countries. (Think of Pegasus as outsourced signal intelligence — The U.S. and other world powers have their own, so don`t need it, and Pegasus being used to surveil their citizens wouldn`t be taken kindly.)
Also, the vast, vast majority of people reading this right now simply aren`t worth the time or expense required for it to be deployed against us. Sorry, bu...
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