Since 2021, Isareli spyware company NSO has been placed on a U.S. trade blacklist and inspired a UN call for a global moratorium on spyware sales. Yet its CEO claims that its product 'saves lives around the world.'
Shohat told Axios that NSO is now cash-flow positive due to its mostly Western European government customers that use the tool to track down terrorists, child sex abusers and other criminals.
NSO, which claims to sell only to government customers, says it has tweaked its products and internal auditing programs to better flag abusive use, although the company declined to say how it has done so to protect the product from hackers and criminals.NSO argues that its tools are preferable to alternatives that are far more dangerous, like mercenary hacking firms and spyware coming out of Russia and China.
"We are not a part of it; we are not exposed to it. That’s part of the misconception that exists," he added.Without specifics about how exactly NSO is preventing abuse or providing retribution to victims, the new CEO's arguments aren't budging human rights activists and researchers. Brett Solomon, the head of Access Now, agreed that governments have started to recognize the threats posed by spyware and begun to take action. "Spyware has not been solved, but I do think we have been able to collectively put this issue much more on the global agenda," he told Axios at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, last week.
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