"This is coming and it’s coming quickly"
Edward Snowden joins us to talk about what is happening to your life and most people have no idea.
How many of you in the audience have a smartphone with you right now? You know, an iPhone or an Android phone. It’s everyone, right? I want you to imagine that right now there’s a Russian company whose entire business is based around the idea of developing a kind of digital burglary tool. And they go by the name the NSO Group. And their product used to work like this. They’d send you a time-sensitive text message with a link in it, something that they think you’re likely to click, like a package delivery notification or an alert that one of your family members has died, and these are the funeral arrangements, and are you going to be there? And if you click this link, and because they can try a hundred different times in a hundred different ways, eventually everyone does, your phone now belongs to whoever sent you that message. You have been hacked by this product. Now the scary thing is because of refinements in this practically criminal product, and it has a real name because this is a real-life example, it’s called Pegasus, it’s now being reported that they no longer need you to click anything. No user interaction is necessary. All they need is your phone number, and they can hack your phone. Now from that point on, everything in the entire history of that phone, they can instantly and immediately copy. And everything that happens on your phone from that day forward, every place you go, everyone you call, everything you read, every photograph, or because they can turn on your camera and they can turn on your microphone whenever they want, not just when you want it, everything that simply passes by that device, everything your phone is a part of, they are now a part of. I want you to reflect on that capability, and the nature of it being created and provided by this Russian enterprise, and think about this from the legal angle. In their defense, they say they only sell this under contract to legitimate customers, only to law enforcement agencies, only to police, only to governments, and only for the purpose, under the contract, of targeting terrorists and criminals. Does that sound better? So many people today, around the world, in developed societies, we’re not talking crazy authoritarian regimes, we’re not talking Saudi Arabia, China, Russia, North Korea, you know, Iran, whoever you don’t like. But we’re talking about France, we’re talking about Germany, we’re talking about the United States, we’re talking about Israel. They believe the rule of law and the legality of a thing is the beginning and the end of the conversation.
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