The Security box, podcast 135: The NSO group can now be sued, says the Supreme Court

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Hello folks, welcome to podcast 135 of the security box. On this podcast, we're going to talk about the court system allowing the lawsuit to continue against one of the most proliferated companies who continue to claim they don't do anything wrong and their software that is used by law enforcement to solve crimes. Who is that group? The NSO group out of Israel. We'll also have news, notes, at least one moron of the podcast, but rumor has it that we have a few, and much more.

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Morons of the podcast

George Santos has some revelations that has come out and an investigation has since been started. The blog post in question is right here, and is titled George Santos masterminded 2017 fraud case. It leads to a lengthy read about what the investigations entale although we don't know what will eventually happen. If you really want to talk about Morons, the FBI admitted to buying data which really should not be a surprise. We could possibly add Elon Musk apologizing for firing a disabled worker of twitter as well. This blog post about twitter news covers the fact that the root certificate has now expired and Elon Musk has since fired everyone of alue including the one who has delbt with the Root CA which was internal to the company, so now ... they're screwed. Don't forget the Freenom ordeal too. This blog post leads to Krebs on Security talking about this. I also put in some discussion about this too. Have any other possible morons? Do you disagree on some of these not being complete morons? I completely understand, but we do have at least two of them listed and others may just be complete stories within themselves.

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Musing

I found this quite interesting in regards to Mastodon VS the rest of the Social Media universe such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Tiktok. It says:

Earle Zwicker: Boosting Ethan Schoonover (ethanschoonover): Stop thinking of Twitter, TikTok, IG, (et al) as social media sites. They are **Content Refineries.** Like processed food manufacturers they take user content & extract the most addicting/engaging content. Brains eat it up but in an unhealthy “devour the whole bag of chips” way. They make hyper-processed social media junk food. Mastodon is more like a potluck. We're all bringing dishes. It's a mess. Kids are running all over. But we are, at least, real people sharing real things.

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Our topic, the NSO group

Supreme Court clears way for WhatsApp case against NSO Group, opening spyware firm to more lawsuits is the article that comes to us from Cyberscoop. Its going to be a very interesting discussion. We'll just have to see how it goes.

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