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in november 2020 oh, the 0 arabic contacted the top is really cybersecurity official to find out more about data and cyber cooperation between israel and the u. e, the official refused to speak on camera, but said he had just returned from an official business trip to the u. e. designed to promote high profile official coordination between the 2 countries. according to leaked reports, it's really a moratti's cyber cooperation developed significantly a run this time. the arrangement seemed to be that full security coordination between the 2 countries allowed and exchange of information. while the u. e invested millions of us dollars in the israeli spyware. the benefits, what allegedly governed by rules set by the israeli intelligence services of carlos, the yob, bleakest embellish,

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matter is a very interesting case. it's this company based in the united arab emirates, and they do sort of both a defense as well as off fence. there was this great reporting from a both foreign policy as well as reuters, which looked into their offensive operations, meaning hacking. so what, what are these reports were able to establish, is that there was this a group of an essay, former an essay and former cia intelligence officials from the united states that went to go work for the u. e. e. e government, under the auspices of this company, dark matter. and just to fall into that and be clear, dark matter was not employing former an essay officials to spy on americans because that would obviously be a federal crime. united states, we don't do that then it's, it's not within our room, our mission. i would like sort of distrust this point is to name of societies on economies to sort of pursue their agenda of smart and safe digital. so it,

it would be contrary to our mission and you can categorically say the dog man, it doesn't spy on you. a citizens. we don't do that. that's not within our capabilities. so categorically we don't do his work or lion. they're lying, it's the only thing that had get a n o massive data for them. i designed these we mathematical programs. we had no upper limit on the capacity to handle data. not there was no, no problem at trillions, quadrillion of data. doesn't matter. we had no mathematical limit that i could see the american investigative website, the intercept published a report in a tober 2016 based on the experiences of an italian cybersecurity researcher approached by dark matter. the report claimed that dark matter had discussed plans to hack any device it wanted to in the u. e. at the press of a button. the report also cited a number of dark matter. employees who were former

u. s. and s a and intelligence officials. the employees said they were asked to carry out offensive operations under the banner of protecting you ease, national security, dark matter dismissed. the researchers allegations saying it preferred quote, talking reality not fantasy tomato. miss hall met the author of the report, jenna mclaughlin, who has investigated the work of dog matter extensively around 2015 the u. a. b. and it's company essentially linked pretty closely to its own defense defense services. dark matter. wanted to get some of those employees into their own roof so they could do a lot more things more freely because some of those u. s. contractors were restricted by us laws. they were drawn by massive salaries. promises of staying in beautiful places, pool villas, yachts even some time. so once some of these employees arrived in, in dark matter,

they were sort of ask questions about how to use those skills in an offensive manner. in order to do that, they would also have to have their see, the corner it says would be held by, by that contractor in a skip. but the approval for those, the clearance would come from an essay that was against the if it was human. and so on, so that agencies would approve it. so that implies that everything that they're doing with his contractors is approved. i think cybersecurity firm, in the regent, dark matter, we're covering really the whole of the security. we've also grabbed a lot of people around the world. not a very moderate alicia came from, had committed and don't know where am in santa ana, who and the son i told you that the b b then to be didn't want to see me monitor within the last few years i returned to i would be for

a defense conference and i got the chance to speak to some of my sources and others that i've met since. and they told me that all the negative attention on dark matter for my reporting and subsequent reporting from writers and others. really drew a lot of attention that the royal family was not interested in. and as a result of that, members of the royal family, extremely high ranking officials sort of went to dark matter and said, you need to change the names of this. remove it, get it out of here. be a lot more discrete. i think from my perspective, ok, having a contractor, us contractor working for a foreign government means they are now an agent that, that foreign government. not, not a us agents or, and having them come from a place like in a say where they're dealing with classified activities. and then going over and assisting in classified act, similar classified activities. and another country means there's foreign spies. now

they're not us citizens. in the couple months after i felt publish my 1st story in between publishing my 2nd at foreign policy magazine, i was contacted by sort of mysterious source to offer documents that i was never able to verify and who had been telling me that within the company they had already been debating whether or not to hack me, but i mean years later the intercept, after i had left confirmed that the intercept was the target of the government. according to a number of reports, dog matter, try to hack the intercept website. a report published by the intercept in june 2019 said that dog might have brought x national security agency hackers and other u. s. intelligence and military veterans, to compromise the computers of political dissidents at home and abroad, including american citizens.

according to the intercept, dog matter headquarters is located in this building in abu dhabi. they had a problem analyzing data on us citizens from another country as a us citizen. see, so that, sir, that is illegal. i'm. i'm sure, under title 18 laws of governing. you know classified material and classified activities. later on, citizen lab demonstrated that dog matter was the main operator of the israeli pegasus spyware. in the u. e. besides it's american stuffers doc matter, also employed x is rarely officers in branches, in the u. e. cypress, and singapore. the company is reported to have paid millions of dollars for their services. both al jazeera arabic and odyssey or english, contacted dark matter and offered them the opportunity to respond to all the allegations made in the film. they declined to comment to either request. i say

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dissidence. these sorts of people being spied on by foreign governments are on government. in some cases, it's really shocking, and i think it's an abuse of the spyware. the reason that the governments are interested in spying on them is for intelligence purposes, to figure out what they're up to, what they might do next. and if they can figure out what someone's doing, what they're about to do, then they can put a little bit of pressure on people, and it trying to influence him, sheep the way that events unfold. ah, i'll just hear arabic contacted many alleged victims of the spyware hucks. they declined to appear in the film for fear of their and their families safety. mcmillan lee, i'm a lawyer. i run your dream is a london based journalist working with a lot of a tv. her phone was hacked by pegasus spyware. between october 29 and july 2020.

there are no huntsman that there was in the lobby. she knew how about it in the mamma letter as to doctor hate she? what soon you've been haven't said so lovely with them. a beer harmony had lots of dark. heavy earth was on the mamma fin. and one of my heavy walk on it. the fall sill min agenda, bucking far alimony and walk article at them. what about buckley ben? a says you normally it's a torn ligaments exit. is it seal up here, lynn? huh. but me and know about him. is there just as big as truce jani? my family put it up like a muffled men hokum, a theme audits going it's been a fun veiling in as a huffy, but there is a lot of them if they had, if, if one of the a lot of when in oxford. oh, and i left it me a minute, i'm chocolate. listen or he may attend the shots, have a at the mom, i live on the garbage and then the shots, you know, the better,

more out of my vision than the a c. as an in what if the whole machine mad us, there's lots of journals that get targeted and hacked, but for fewer of them are willing to come forward and tell their stories. so i think that, you know, if you were to look at some of the top media organizations in the world, maybe you'd find other other instances of people getting hacked or targeted. you know, we had a case of course, back in 2018, where the bay route bureau chief of the new york times been hubbard received a text message linked to pegasus spyware on his phone. my, how did the on the yet, and what was that? so the question is, with this advanced technology, how can people ensure their devices a safe and wish pegasus for, for example, it would have been very hard to find out that your phone had been hacked. the best thing you can do is keep your phone up to date. if you have an always install, the updates on your phone says it's time to update. if you get a text message with

a link that you're not expecting, don't click on that link. if you get an email with a link or a file that you're expecting, don't click on that link. don't open that file. if you do have something very sensitive to talk about, the best thing to do is to leave your phone at home and go on a walk. all phones have bought or policies on them. and if they had known, they will get patched by apple, an android, and so on. but they're all going to be funny, but it's used on those devices that are unknown yet. and therefore any device is, or that will have a weakness that can be exploited. don't i'm sure there are organisations away with the world looking for those vulnerabilities to exploit in the future. i no doubt it won't happen again. is just the case of when electronic frontier foundation, the f f is a us based organization whose goal is to technically and legally defend journalists

and civil society activists who face cyber crimes committed by governments. e f. f has documented, arise, and the number of pegasus associated cyber crimes against journalists and activists . working on sensitive cases. we fight against a government abuse of surveillance, bowers and uses. there are inconsistent. we human rights to stand out. and that was using mexico to try to get lag carmen, but he stay here with you some very famous embassy at the governor, least in the country. and we have seen on saw the use of n, a sale, pegasus in mexico that we think activists who were fighting corruption and who are fighting, for instance, a dumping advocate as a gasket games that corporation or that use of, of shook our. and so we have to use these also against many other geometries who are doing get their work in my work,

we have studied similar mobile phones against journalists in conflicts and human rights. defenders and opposition was in conflict and civilians in lebanon. and on the border of lebanon in syria being spied upon by their various governments in israel loya, my husband represents a number of phone hacking victims who have decided to file lawsuits against the israeli, an esl group on the, on a fair amount. the county of biggest source can get him and hopefully only mom i'm but he got a couple in fenway hark thought lee, how can you hear what he n? and i'd either they and then i had them at that level. steel had a little and we'll get caught in

february of the year. wow. what the mean had he should have a shot again. leo colonial cam in the lady. come in miss lee. and however, if it's late and with diet, i'm and i can dial s. s e led to feel heavy shotuko who are not coming from us. if we be head of the way you had to live with it can be either opposite and that is area. we a hello miss leah. almost hong wanted to know why the legal liability towards the victims of hacking lies with the manufacturer on the purchaser of the spyware justice. these companies are saying that they only sell these to government, and that they only sell it to investigate federal re organized crime. bad

and they don't sell it. the government school does respect human rights, but that's not totally now. and back in those systems it's, we are an international law. it's inconsistent in our pin also with a cost additional. oh many the advantages we have review then the last i personally know involved doesn't so prevents the tele bill, the tourist, the tax law into separated only due to the availability of such a our intelligence capability name can cough see of a little caught a just him a letty come a survey, let he tomba, to be helpful. commercial talk in san juan bit. it looked so half a year were that of on they awarded the unseen. well at the set. good. what are, i'll it there and then out, look, i find out the i the i would down the latino my film. a bad man. you're going on and the who know a little talk about it have yet been 2020 and is really caused band the media from publishing any details about these cases in the interests of protecting israel's

national security. i'll de 0 arabic, contacted the en, eh, so group, requesting an interview with senior management to give them the right to reply to, allegations made against the company. in this film, the company sent a short reply. declining the interview request, al jazeera english, contacted the en, eh, so group to give them the right to reply to allegations made against the company. in this film, they did not respond with coll, collin, in a slightly shudder get in. this all is earlier, the edible ho willa with the output. with all feel, the connie of the biggest was slade, lola he, alum luna, is a must bach warm, awful call is love the he's men could i was over the devour coleman is my leave for be 30. couldn't fall with coma to be he had the is sherika my a lula feel alan hostetler was all the court. what wafaa got? alcohol. melissa ali alma philip was able to give her amnesty international also

took legal action against pegasus. the accused party, this time was the israeli defense ministry itself being the official body that approves and authorizes the selling of spyware. we are disappointed, or we will have to see what the court decides with the ruling on the case itself. now we hope that the court will decide the way, shoot, and revoke, and so's security license and is really court dismissed the case. i, mr. international said quote, a mountain of evidence was ignored and called the court a robber stump to the defense ministers. impunity to human rights violations. my accident to the court. this is and was obviously disappointment. it was a, it was a very strong judgement that didn't take into consideration the evidence that we put forward, or the legal arguments that we thought were important. and, well,

we're disappointed in the judgement, we still think it was a very important case in the growing evidence of and as those misuse of technology or the misuse of and as those technologies by our clients. and we hope that by bringing this case and supporting this case, we're bringing to attention the very serious issues and potential human rights impacts for our technologies like and as i was pegasus and others that are being used with impunity around the world by repressive governments. and governments, you have a terrible human rights record. a c queen. let, let the all to neg id. i bought bagels a sublet in his old book. glad to help no ship blame me. goofy me. slightly imaged and squealed them all. goofing below me more aimlessly. a to be able to lay lim sequoia good or live with damage, but they slim key but damage but they saw him dummy view. your mobile bill woven me calling roneesh lini. so on the lava foothill been mold before,

and spud bits the old gala or dome ot mpt, a medium moves and beset she themselves think their ways of abbey to honolulu. miss yolanda enough lambeth dummies but not a fleet of a by union odyssey or english, contacted the governments of israel kingdom of saudi arabia and the united arab emirates and offered them the opportunity to respond to all the allegations made in the film. they did not respond. i actually would also like to know a little bit more about what happened in the rejection. i think there's a few different things at play here. one is that it's very difficult to know the relationship between the ministry of defense and, and i, so there seems to be a lot of crossover at high level staff. the ministry of defense in israel is the, is the ministry that approves all exports. and basically, our case was saying either the ministry of defense is not giving export licenses in line with international human rights standards. or they are giving exports in line

with international human rights standards. but they have, they have a company in their jurisdiction who is acting outside of the legal export license compton. because we leon for tom on this are and others whose phones have been hacked. the question is, what recourse if any, do they have many stock hardy? this sort of evidence does show that your phone was hacked and shows that there was a connection to an s o group. if you wanted to bring a legal action, i will say that there are other targets that have been engaged in legal process in israel, in cyprus, and most recently in the u. k. of a b l call arguing my la la la in this elaine this over to national amc. i'm totally collegial and biggest move on the bios. a couple of them last week. not loyal to us because we've escaped done bigler by

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head of that is not cheap at high pressure and charts. so last he settled and try make the most of that on thursday around the eastern seaboard. because here comes a stormy weather, some really heavy rain driving through the the northern plains easing across sia hi valley, the tennessee valley pushing towards that east coast. northern edge of that we have got some significant snow for one celsius there in winnipeg, somewhat dr. calgary. around 2 degrees, and then we got snow on the other side of the what just around the rockies, some very right whether into b c and also into a pacific north west. washington state to protect the sinks and very heavy rain. that when she mixed pushes a little further east was for friday, increasing cloud a southerly wind, taking temperatures up in calgary temporarily at least to around 12 celsius or something of improvement and improving whether to just around the east disabled but a rash, a showers, some of the wintry either side of the laced rest of the u. s. doesn't look too bad place to say things looking little better. now for jamaica, we have seen some very heavy rain recently,

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