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Thursday, January 31, 2019

UAE used deadly spying tool to snoop on iPhones used by prominent activists and diplomats

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The barrage of bad news for the iPhone keeps coming.

Reuters has published a semi-worrisome report about how a team of former U.S. intelligence agents working for the UAE used a cyber tool called Karma to spy on iPhones used by "activists, diplomats and rival foreign leaders" simply by "uploading phone numbers or email accounts into an automated targeting system."

Karma reportedly allowed the UAE to "monitor hundreds of targets beginning in 2016, from the Emir of Qatar and a senior Turkish official to a Nobel Peace laureate human-rights activist in Yemen." Read more...

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from Mashable http://bit.ly/2HEZlmB

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