However, The Dark says it’s simpler than that: ![]() Many (such as pension funds) are expected to be very risk-averse and will probably withdraw from investment in those companies, reducing their access to capital. I think it will have more direct impact on investors. We wouldn’t want to have to close down your US operation - maybe you can do us a favor and include these lines in the software you supply to NSO.” It can also be used as a tool against … companies the government want to influence for any reason: “Hmm, looks like one of your distributors has been selling to NSO. … Large companies with distributor networks cannot effectively prevent their products being sold to those companies but it warns them that the government now have a lever to really screw them up if they feel like it: “That’s a nice international business you’ve got there - it would be a shame if anyone asked how your routers got into NSO’s network.” Mostly it tells US companies selling things to the entity that they need to be very careful. companies doing business with NSO? Graham Cobb explains: The gaps between democratic countries in our approach to how we design, fund, and govern technology is the space that authoritarians abroad and would-be autocrats at home seep into.īut some think the Entity List is toothless: With complex, international supply chains, how can the feds hope to stop U.S. But it is also only a first step-and an easy one at that. They’re going to find it hard to actually do business. … No payment processors (e.g., Visa, Mastercard) nor access to any banks that have a US entity. ![]() They’ve now got no access to: iPhones, App stores, Google phones, Amazon AWS, Azure, GCP, CPUs from Intel, AMD. What does it mean, in practice? paulhar counts the ways: The US government was previously a sizeable customer of NSO, perpetuating this sort of thing. What goes around comes around? Here’s adespoton: French media reported that it had been used by Morocco to spy on senior French officials, including the personal mobile phone of President Emmanuel Macron. NSO’s licensed military-grade software, Pegasus, was last year revealed to have been used to target smartphones belonging to 37 journalists, human rights activists and other prominent figures. Such practices threaten the rules-based international order.” … The US commerce department said … “These tools have also enabled foreign governments to conduct transnational repression … targeting dissidents, journalists and activists outside of their sovereign borders to silence dissent. Groups like NSO use developer versions of popular operating software to develop “zero-click exploits”, which do not require the user to open a malicious link to deploy. O RLY? Mehul Srivastava and Aime Williams add-“ NSO Group on trade blacklist”: NSO spokesperson Oded Hershkovitz said in a statement that the company is “dismayed.” … The company said its “rigorous” human rights policies … “already resulted in multiple terminations of contracts with government agencies that misused our products.” “Who will want to work with a company that’s been so publicly sanctioned?” ![]() … “They made this real effort to change the conversation,” … David Kaye, a former United Nations special rapporteur … said. could also weaken NSO’s standing with investors and cast a pall over the company’s attempts to rehabilitate its image. The “Wassenaar” rule will align the United States with 42 European and other allies. comes two weeks after Commerce announced a rule that would bar sales of American hacking software and equipment to any entity overseas known to have engaged in hacking for malign purposes. foreign policy, including by working to stem the proliferation of digital tools used for repression.” … The Commerce Department said in a statement that the action is part of the Biden administration’s “efforts to put human rights at the center of U.S. The entity list designation prohibits export from the United States to NSO of any type of hardware or software, severing the company from a vital source of technology … after determining that its phone-hacking tools had been used by foreign governments to “maliciously target” government officials, activists, journalists, academics and embassy workers around the world. There are hundreds of companies on the “entity list.” a federal blacklist prohibiting the company from receiving American technologies. What’s the craic? Drew Harwell, Ellen Nakashima and Craig Timberg report-“ Biden administration blacklists NSO Group over Pegasus spyware”: ![]() Not to mention: Jurassic Park but with a cat. Your humble blogwatcher curated these bloggy bits for your entertainment. In today’s SB Blogwatch, we work out what it all means. TIL a new phrase: transnational repression.
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