For more than a decade, dozens of journalists and human rights activists have been targeted and hacked by governments all over the world. Cops and spies in rel=”nofollow” href=”https://www.vice.com/en/article/ethiopia-allegedly-used-spyware-against-us-based-journalists-again/”>Ethiopia, rel=”nofollow” href=”https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ced56p5l2wwo”>Greece, rel=”nofollow” href=”https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/28/hungarian-journalists-targeted-with-pegasus-spyware-to-sue-state”>Hungary, rel=”nofollow” href=”https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/10/31/india-phone-hacking-apple/”>India, rel=”nofollow” href=”https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/04/mexico-nso-spyware-journalists-human-rights-hacked-pegasus”>Mexico, Poland, rel=”nofollow” href=”https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/18/nso-spyware-used-to-target-family-of-jamal-khashoggi-leaked-data-shows-saudis-pegasus”>Saudi Arabia, and rel=”nofollow” href=”https://www.vice.com/en/article/government-hackers-iphone-hacking-jailbreak-nso-group/”>United Arab Emirates, among others, have used sophisticated spyware to compromise the phones of these victims, who at times have also faced real-world violence being intimidated, harassed, and in rel=”nofollow” href=”https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/02/world/middleeast/saudi-khashoggi-spyware-israel.html”>extreme cases, even rel=”nofollow” href=”https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/jul/18/revealed-murdered-journalist-number-selected-mexico-nso-client-cecilio-pineda-birto”>murdered.
In the last few years, in the fight to protect these higher-risk communities, a team of a dozen digital…
