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by nivertech 1061 days ago
What you're mistakenly referring to as a "coup d'état" is actually an effort to prevent the use of Pegasus on innocent citizens by the judiciary, law enforcement, and the State Attorney General, who were appointed by previous governments.

There have been more than a thousand of unlawful Pegasus cases so far (tens or hundreds of thousands if you count text messages from other people on contact lists and WhatsApp group messages). It's possible that almost every smartphone user in Israel was affected in some way.

Some were even against the acting Prime Minister.

So, yes, you do need to protect your privacy, but for entirely diff. reasons. The only sure way to achieve this is by going off-the-grid.

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Israel's Law Committee has approved a judge-led probe into the NSO Pegasus spyware.

https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-746164