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January 30, 2019 05:06 pm -05
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UAE used deadly spying tool to snoop on iPhones used by prominent activists and diplomats
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."
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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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