![]() ![]() ![]() Merari's team discovered that even though there had been no eavesdropping without court orders, spyware had indeed been used, though the police referred to it by a different name: Seifan. In response, an investigative committee led by Deputy Attorney General Amit Merari sought to examine whether police use attack spyware, Pegasus or not. The spyware's suite of tools, which were supposed to be presented to the security cabinet headed by then-Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, included various capabilities sought by police – ranging from listening to any phone call on an infected phone, reading text messages, to remotely opening the microphone and the camera without the phone owner's knowledge.Įarlier, the former police commissioner Roni Alsheich claim that "The Israel Police doesn't have Pegasus, to dispel all doubt". Details and screenshots of a prototype version of the Pegasus spyware designed for Israeli police back in 2014 reveal the tools and far-reaching capabilities of a system that was slated to be deployed in everyday police work.
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