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Michael Novakhov's favorite articles on   Inoreader Israeli firm NSO’s spyware again hacking iPhones: Report posted at 13:18:54 UTC   via   aljazeera.com Published On 19 Apr 202319 Apr 2023 A research group says the Israeli NSO Group’s spyware was used to launch at least three “zero click” attacks on the iPhones of civil society members last year. Citizen Lab released its  findings  on Tuesday into NSO’s global reach after its software infected the phones of at least two human rights defenders in Mexico in 2022. NSO’s Pegasus spyware can infiltrate a mobile device either through a text message that users click or more recently through “zero-click attacks”. Those  intrusions compromise devices  without any action by the user. Messages, chats, phone calls, contacts and emails can be monitored. The latest identified hacks, Citizen Lab said, targeted phones with iOS 15 and iOS 16 operating software. The Lab shared its findings with Apple, which made security improvements to fix the fla

  Michael Novakhov's favorite articles on   Inoreader The new Washington consensus posted at 12:24:38 UTC   via   ft.com If you like time warps, read Bill Clinton’s  2000 speech  urging Congress to admit China into the World Trade Organization. China’s entry would enrich Americans and help convert China to freedom, he said. “There’s no question China has been trying to crack down on the internet,” Clinton conceded to laughter. “Good luck! That’s sort of like trying to nail jello to the wall.”  Less than a quarter of a century later, China lives behind a Great Firewall and the Washington consensus has long since been declared dead. That term, which was coined by a British economist in 1989, consisted of free market maxims. Its guarantor was the US and its crack troops were the World Bank and the IMF. The ten-point list was exclusively economic. Geopolitics had lost its relevance since the end of the Cold War. The past is another world. The goal of integrating China has been replace