new investigation by the Forbidden Stories-led consortium - supported by Amnesty International - has revealed how the Israeli authorities have seized documents in an ongoing WhatsApp lawsuit against the Israeli spyware firm NSO Group.
"Amnesty was not able to cryptographically verify the authenticity of the leaked emails, which had been converted into HTML format and did not include metadata"
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We decided to publish the story because of its public interest
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something ^^^ the guardian and amnesty forgot to mention in their articles
Guardian didn't even link in their article to
https://ddosecrets.com/article/israel-ministry-of-justice
"This is a standard disclaimer that will be added to all datasets in the Cyberwar category, even absent specific suspicions"
with most things be cautious don't just take things at face value
Security Lab conducted a forensic analysis to verify some documents used by Forbidden Stories and media partners in their stories.
https://securitylab.amnesty.org/latest/2024/07/israels-attempt-to-sway-whatsapp-case-casts-doubt-on-its-ability-to-deal-with-nso-spyware/
and Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/news/article/2024/jul/25/israel-tried-to-frustrate-us-lawsuit-over-pegasus-spyware-leak-suggests
Documents from the Israel Ministry of Justice released April 2024 by Anonymous For Justice - The dataset contains 800,000 emails in HTML format, over 700,000 image files, 200,000 documents and thousands of spreadsheets and presentations.
https://ddosecrets.com/article/israel-ministry-of-justice