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🗓️ 30 October 2019

⏱️ 19 minutes

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WhatsApp sues the NSO Group about that crazy exploit, Uber is threating to sue Los Angeles about a crazy tracking program that I’m not sure about, we’ve got the full details surrounding HBO Max, an activist is taking Facebook’s political advertising policy to its logical conclusion, and how come none of you told me about Mario Kart Tour? Sponsors: Tiny Capital Pessimists Archive Podcast Links: Why WhatsApp is pushing back on NSO Group hacking (Washington Post) WhatsApp Says Israeli Firm Used Its App in Spy Program (NYTimes) The New HBO Max is competing with Netflix by giving you Friends and Game of Thrones for $15 a month (Recode) Report: Apple to Use Qualcomm's X55 5G Modem in All Three 2020 iPhones (MacRumors) Uber in talks with Los Angeles as scooter location data lawsuit looms (CNET) Privacy groups actually side with Uber in scooter data fight (Mashable) This man is running for governor of California so he can run false Facebook ads (CNN Business) Mario Kart Tour Has a Rocket Start With 123.9 Million Downloads in Its First Month (SensorTower) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Mem Right Home for Wednesday, October 30th, 2019. I'm Brian McCullough today.
0:10.0	What's-app, sues the NSO group about that crazy exploit.
0:14.4	Uber is threatening to sue Los Angeles about a crazy tracking program
0:18.2	that I'm not quite sure about.
0:19.7	We've got the full details surrounding HBO Max. An activist is taking Facebook's political
0:24.8	advertising policy to its logical conclusion. And how come none of you told me about Mario Kart
0:30.1	Tour? Here's what you missed today in the world of tech.
0:34.0	Remember in May when WhatsApp announced it had discovered a flaw that allowed hackers to install surveillance software on
0:44.9	iPhone and Android phones and the flaw was so crazy that all you needed was to
0:50.8	just receive a call from someone and your phone could be
0:54.2	infected even if you didn't answer the call and then the surveillance would
0:57.8	basically see every message you sent every photo every everything. At the time, fingers were pointed at the Israeli Digital Surveillance Company
1:07.0	NSO Group. Well, WhatsApp has officially pointed the finger at NSO Group, filing a lawsuit against the company in the
1:15.0	U.S. District Court in the Northern District of California saying an SO was behind the
1:21.3	exploit that it was used to spy on 1,400 people in 20 different countries,
1:26.6	and even though the suit did not speculate on who NSO groups technology was being used on
1:31.1	behalf of, it did note that the area codes for the
1:35.1	compromised users indicated a focus on people living in Mexico, Bahrain, and
1:40.6	the United Arab Emirates.
1:42.7	This is Will Cathcart head of WhatsApp,
1:45.2	which is, of course, owned by Facebook.
1:47.6	How can we say this with confidence?
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