While the world consumed itself with Hacking Team, the leaks made clear that sophisticated surveillance states, intelligence, and law enforcement agencies had already moved on. The Israelis didn’t bother with PCs; they could get everything their government clients might ever want or need simply by hacking phones. And judging by their pitch deck, NSO had found a way to invisibly and remotely hack into every smartphone on the market: BlackBerries, the Nokia Symbian phones still used by many in the third world, Android phones, and, of course, iPhones.
