Good morning and welcome. The committee will come to order. Without objection, the chair may declare a recess at any time. This session will be conducted entirely on an unclassified basis. Participants are reminded to refrain from discussing classified National Ready information protected from public disclosure. We convene a public hearing on the acute and rapidly evolving threat posed by foreign commercial spyware. Reports have shined a bright light sold on the open market. These tools provide a zero click access to all the information stored on a mobile phone, laptop, or other internet connected device. Emails, photographs, messages sent by encrypted at, literally nothing is out of reach. Every employee of the executive branch, every journalist or political activist, every american citizen. Every citizen of the world with an electronic device. Aside from updating, there is little you can do to protect yourself from being targeted and compromised. The availability of these tools in th
hearing is just under an hour and a half. good morning and welcome. without objection, the chair may call a recess at any time. the session will be held on unclassified classified basis. all participants are asked to decline from discussing national security information a. we are holding a hearing on the rapid threat posed by foreign commercial spyware. reports have shined a bright light on the market for spying tools sold on the open market, offering sophisticated signals intelligence capabilities as an end to end service. the most sophisticated tools provide zero click access to all the information on a laptop or phone or internet connected device. emails, photographs, messages sent via encrypted apps, even a microphone, nothing is out of reach. this spyware could be used against every employee of the executive branch, every journalist and political activist, every citizen of the world with an electronic device. instead of updating software on the devices, there is little