Though former CIA Director John Brennan neither confirms nor denies whether the Saudi government bought Israeli spyware, he does confirm that the Saudi services have insight into what their citizens and even non-Saudi citizens were doing both inside and outside. While this might not be news, Bryan’s documentary confirms that thanks to the Israeli company NSO, Saudis have the best hacking technology that money can buy, namely – Pegasus Version 2.
“Pegasus is a piece of software, but it’s also a capability. It’s the capability to infect a phone and turn it into a digital spy in the pocket of the victim – siphoning off private and encrypted chats, photographs, messages, even enabling the microphone and the camera, it can turn that phone into a bug in a room,” explains John Scott-Railton to his audience on how Pegasus works.
The Dissident also tells us that in a symbolic response to Khashoggi’s killing, several US media organisations and business leaders pulled out of a major investment…