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A federal judge has granted Meta-owned WhatsApp’s request for a permanent injunction blocking Israeli cyberintelligence company NSO Group from targeting the messaging app’s users. At the same time, the judge dramatically reduced the fine that NSO Group must pay to Meta.

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[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Security through some clown in a robe declaring it so.

It's even more of a charade because the "fines" are going from zio to zio.

If Meta actually gave a shit, they would make an actually secure app instead of putting on a play in the courts.

[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

If Meta actually gave a shit, they would make an actually secure app instead of putting on a play in the courts.

Yeah, you don't hear this kind of thing about Signal.

[–] JoshuaBrusque@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago

Yeah this will work...

[–] DFX4509B_2@lemmy.org 7 points 2 days ago

Oh the irony.... A company known for spying on its users and selling that to data brokers blocking spyware.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 10 points 3 days ago

“We hereby enjoin you from doing the illegal thing you were doing, and decrease the fine we were going to give you for doing it.”

Interesting timing, as NSO is now owned by US investors.

[–] BoloMKXXVIII@piefed.social 9 points 3 days ago

Meta doesn't want to complete with the NSO Group in stealing user's information.

[–] iopq@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

This why we need to switch to Matrix, to empower users to publish any malware they want