Apple should know who works for NSO Group. It should block every single account of every single person working for that org. Same goes for their families.
Google should do the same for Android.
You do not fight organizations like that by fighting "organization". You make it very difficult for people who work for those organizations to participate in a society that relies on what they actively work on breaking. In fact, you tell Israeli government that unless they put a leash on its dog and lock it up in its backyard, you will start disabling accounts of every single person in Israeli government. When the government leaders cannot work their iphones, they will ensure that NSO does not touch Apple's products.
Baby hackers that want go working for NSO want to have a high life. Modern high life requires modern communications devices. Blocking them from modern life (for example, vaccine passports done via iPhone and Android) will quickly lower the ranks.
Blocking Israeli government officials from Google and Apple will immediately solve NSO is an Israeli company that is cozy with the government and gets government protection problem.
None of the NSO group's clients would want to pay for it via suitcases of cash. And in either event paying with suitcases of cash creates problems in the modern world for those that receive the suitcases of cash.
there is a wide range of exploit brokers and a decent number of security researchers that choose $ over morality as long as there is demand there will be supply.
> Apple should know who works for NSO Group. It should block every single account of every single person working for that org. Same goes for their families.
NSO are suing Facebook - successfully so far - to force them to allow NSO staff access to Facebook when FB responded to NSO attacks by doing just that.
Facebook was suing NSO about the hacks that NSO carried out.
In this case Facebook, Apple, Google, etc should simply terminate the accounts exercising "we are deplatforming you. No explanation" option they all have.
NSO Group operates at the pleasure of Israel. If Israel says "jump" NSO Group is going to respond with "Would you like us to have our tongues out while we do it?"
Google should do the same for Android.
You do not fight organizations like that by fighting "organization". You make it very difficult for people who work for those organizations to participate in a society that relies on what they actively work on breaking. In fact, you tell Israeli government that unless they put a leash on its dog and lock it up in its backyard, you will start disabling accounts of every single person in Israeli government. When the government leaders cannot work their iphones, they will ensure that NSO does not touch Apple's products.