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by motohagiography 1789 days ago
It's like the one thing universally true about spies is they can never keep it g. As a security guy, this is why you don't get involved with dodgy companies. When the pressure is on, they will pull in everyone they ever spoke to and use you protecting your rep to try get leverage. Pretty clear how he's choosing to go out.

However, I'd also be willing to make a huge bet there is zero chance the FB CISO at the time was aware of who these representatives allegedly were or approved what they were doing unless it was threat intelligence. I don't think this will be the last muck thrown by this company.
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JumpCrisscross 1789 days ago
> there is zero chance the FB CISO at the time was aware of who these representatives allegedly were

We also have zero evidence the people this guy talked to worked for Facebook. He could have been duped. He could be lying. It could have been two curious employees acting on their own.

What we can say is this guy lacks professional integrity. Throwing potential or actual clients under the bus in public is a sleazy move.

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nicce 1789 days ago
This article is from the last year, so that is also good to note. The most recent issues weren’t that public yet.
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dwd 1789 days ago
Also that Facebook's response was that NSO is misrepresenting the conversations, rather than denying that they occurred.

Unless NSO reached out to Facebook to try and sell them something, that is highly suspect.

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smashah 1789 days ago
Recent NSO story isn't new. The leaked numbers are new.
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sloshnmosh 1789 days ago
Are you sure about that? Facebook has been caught several times doing shady surveillance type stuff on its users. The VPN app that is mentioned in the thread is one. There was another incident years ago when Facebook users were forced to download antivirus software from their “trusted partners” and scan their PC’s before they were allowed to login to their FB accounts. People that had been flagged for scanning tested some theories and found that it had nothing to do with the users computer as their partner that shared the same device could login to their FB account on the same machine without having to run an AV scan.

There’s not a lot of information out there about that incident.

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