{"id":3196,"date":"2016-09-04T21:34:08","date_gmt":"2016-09-05T01:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/?p=3196"},"modified":"2016-09-04T21:34:08","modified_gmt":"2016-09-05T01:34:08","slug":"how-spy-tech-firms-let-governments-see-everything-on-a-smartphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/2016\/09\/04\/how-spy-tech-firms-let-governments-see-everything-on-a-smartphone\/","title":{"rendered":"How Spy Tech Firms Let Governments See Everything on a Smartphone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This article is interesting because it shows how Cyber-Security firms, or Spy-Tech firms are using their technology and marketing their products to governments around the world.\u00a0 This particular Spy-Tech company mentioned in the article, NSO, is based out of Israel.\u00a0 Israel is the second-largest exporter in the world of cyber-security products, next to the United States.\u00a0 NSO, has developed spying software that can see all of the activity on a target\u2019s iPhone.\u00a0 NSO argues spying is important to prevent terrorist attacks, and the firm\u2019s motto is to \u201cMake the World a Safe Place.\u201d\u00a0 With a price of $650,000, plus a $500,000 set-up fee to track 10 iPhone devices, the company\u2019s software is not-exactly for the \u201ceveryday user.\u201d\u00a0 NSO\u2019s software has been more in-demand in recent years because companies such as Facebook, Apple, and Google are making it harder for governments to access their data because they are using more-strict encryption.\u00a0 NSO has developed a tracking software called Pegasus, which Apple recently released a security-update to patch all of it\u2019s devices.\u00a0 Do you believe this software is ethical, and should the government really need to know everything a person is doing on their phones in order to keep people safe? There has been recent cases in the United States, such as the San Bernardino shootings in California, where the government was unable to unlock the shooter\u2019s iPhone.\u00a0 Apple stuck to its guns, and did not provide the U.S. government with technology capable of unlocking the device.\u00a0 The U.S. government had to resort to a third-party Spy-Tech firm to unlock the device.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/09\/03\/technology\/nso-group-how-spy-tech-firms-let-governments-see-everything-on-a-smartphone.html?_r=0\">http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/09\/03\/technology\/nso-group-how-spy-tech-firms-let-governments-see-everything-on-a-smartphone.html?_r=0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article is interesting because it shows how Cyber-Security firms, or Spy-Tech firms are using their technology and marketing their products to governments around the world.\u00a0 This particular Spy-Tech company mentioned in the article, NSO, is based out of Israel.\u00a0 Israel is the second-largest exporter in the world of cyber-security products, next to the United [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3363,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3196","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3363"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3197,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3196\/revisions\/3197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}