A Private Spy Was Caught Using a Hacking Tool to Target Their Crush
Back in 2013, between the many revelations on mass
surveillance abuses by the NSA coming from the trove of Snowden leaks,
Americans also learned agents at the signals intelligence agency were snooping
on their love interests. Dubbed LOVEINT (a play on ‘Love-Intelligence,’
apparently), a number of agents around the world were caught spying on their
love interests using the godlike spy tools of the NSA.
Now an employee from an infamous surveillance company was
caught trying to do the exact same. According to four sources, a former
employee of NSO Group—the surveillance firm out of Israel whose hacking
technology was reportedly used on the phones of associates of murdered
journalist Jamal Khashoggi—was caught using the company’s hacking tool to
target a love interest.
While the controversial company did immediately fire the
employee, it's yet another example of how powerful surveillance tools are still
being abused by the very people entrusted with wielding them. Motherboard
reporter Joseph Cox is on this week’s CYBER to discuss the story.
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