3/ I just realized I forgot to include a link to the source filing!

It comes from the Whatsapp v NSO case and reflects NSO Group's efforts to get out from under a permanent injunction to stop hacking WhatsApp users.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

8/ I believe NSO does not change.

They've churned through countless lobbyists to persuade you that they are turning over a new leaf

But in the end it's always the same story.

Activists, elections, politicians, dissidents getting their lives turned upside down.

Story
www.wsj.com/tech/israeli...

7/ Even in Trump 1, the admin was concerned about Pegasus proliferation.

And in 2021 with a clear-eyed assessment that NSO was harming US national security and foreign policy objectives.

What followed? Entity listing, visa bans, and an executive order on spyware. Plus congressional action..

6/ Today NSO desperately wants to be relieved of the consequences of their own choices.

Their 'secret' tech keeps getting discovered.

They've lost in American court.

Their valuation cratered.

They're scandal-ridden

Don't believe the spin. Now, I think they want a bailout.

5/ NSO doesn't just help foreign governments hack American companies.

They scoff at American law.

Don't take my word for it.

After getting sued for breaking the law and hacking WhatsApp users.. they kept doing it.

By @lorenzofb.bsky.social
techcrunch.com/2025/05/30/e...

4/ NSO's business model: hacking 🇺🇸American companies.

NSO sources vulnerabilities in US products.

Then weaponizes them to fuel Pegasus hacking by foreign governments.

Diminishing the value of American tech & making us all less safe.

3/ NSO helped hack Americans like Carine Kanimba.

Her father Paul, who saved over 1000 lives, was kidnapped by the government of Rwanda for exercising his freedom of Speech.

While Carine was fighting for his freedom & meeting with US lawmakers, she was hacked with Pegasus.

2/ Most people know that Pegasus spyware has a mountain of abuse cases around the globe.

But for ~a decade, NSO has also profited from enabling foreign governments to hack American citizens phones.

And US officials.

2/Last month, NSO got hit with very consequential injunction barring them from targeting WhatsApp users with Pegasus spyware.

Now, NSO Group is asking the US court to give them a carveout, saying it's "reasonably foreseeable" that a US agency might use Pegasus...

therecord.media/judge-bars-n...

2/ Francesco Nicodemo, the latest Italian Paragon target to speak out, has this to say.

Thoughtful words.

(1st pic = machine trans)

2/ POV: and you can't get back to sleep because you feel like a renter in every monetized corner of your own life...

And while you can't sleep, your mattress topper is sending an astonishing 16 gigabytes of data/month to your sleep landlord.

4/ While #Amazon #AWS has a root cause & is doing mitigations.

With some fixes in, some stuff may start working a bit...

But there's going to be a massive backlog of requests & other stuff, meaning that even after fixes are in place things are going to be sluggish & screwy.

3/ Here's a plain language of #Amazon #AWS updates:

12:11AM Pacific: something is up, error rates spike
12:51: Getting worse
1:25: Looks like the hotspot is DynamoDB at US-EAST-1
2:01: It's problem with DNS resolution [Root cause!]
2:22: We've put in initial mitigations, not over yet.

2/ Today's Amazon outage is the convergence of a few trends.

While Amazon has multiple regions, US-EAST1 is *the* region for a ton of services.

Second, more and more of the internet is moving to hosting by a handful hyperscalers.

So, when things go wrong there, they go wrong everywhere.