David Vincenzetti

Pegasus: How a Spy in Your Pocket Threatens the End of Privacy, Dignity, and Democracy

by Laurent Richard and Sandrine Rigaud  · 17 Jan 2023  · 350pp  · 115,802 words

head of a European consulate in another, drew a personal shout-out from the company CEO back in Milan. “You are on the team!” wrote David Vincenzetti. This was an especially welcome note because Vincenzetti was something of a legend in the cybercommunity, a hacker’s hacker, a self-styled cypherpunk who

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security is much more important.” National security professionals agreed! Ten years in, Vincenzetti had made Hacking Team the premier private cybersurveillance vendor in the world. David Vincenzetti looked the part of predator, lean and alert, with a hint of wiry sinew beneath his slim-fit designer suits, like a hunter who could

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future career” but had already put in the works a nondisclosure agreement for his signature. Yeah, you can leave, kiddo, but keep your trap shut. * * * DAVID VINCENZETTI AND his management team adhered to the simple and straightforward economic formula that prevails in business these days: a corporation’s sole purpose is to

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system. A few former Hacking Team employees told investigators that the old software was still in the system because one person was still using it—David Vincenzetti. “Literally,” said one, “because he couldn’t be bothered to install a software update.” Phineas Fisher offered his own statement after the news that the

This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race

by Nicole Perlroth  · 9 Feb 2021  · 651pp  · 186,130 words

the Times. And I’d always made a point to reach out to Hacking Team’s Italian executives for comment. The company’s chief executive, David Vincenzetti, was emphatic that Hacking Team went to “great lengths” to ensure that its spyware was used only for criminal and terrorism investigations and never sold