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Clinton says Trump will ‘make America hate again’
Associated Press
Activist discovers iPhone
spyware, sparks update
AJMAN, United Arab
Emirates (AP) — The
suspicious text message
that appeared on Ahmed
Mansoor’s iPhone promised
to reveal details about torture
in the United Arab Emirates’
prisons. All Mansoor had to
do was click the link.
Mansoor, a human rights
activist, didn’t take the
bait. Instead, he reported it
to Citizen Lab, an internet
watchdog, setting off a
chain reaction that in two
weeks exposed a secretive
Israeli cyberespionage irm,
defanged a powerful new
piece of eavesdropping
software and gave millions
of iPhone users across the
world an extra boost to their
digital security.
“It feels really good,”
Mansoor said in an interview
from his sand-colored apart-
ment block in downtown
Ajman, a small city-state in
the United Arab Emirates.
Cradling his iPhone to
show The Associated Press
screenshots of the rogue text,
Mansoor said he hoped the
developments “could save
hundreds of people from
being targets.”
Hidden behind the link in
the text message was a highly
targeted form of spyware
crafted to take advantage of
three previously undisclosed
weaknesses in Apple’s
mobile operating system.
Two
reports
issued
Thursday, one by Lookout, a
San Francisco mobile secu-
rity company, and another
by Citizen Lab, based at
the University of Toronto’s
Munk School of Global
Affairs, outlined how the
program could completely
compromise a device at the
tap of a inger. If Mansoor
had touched the link, he
would have given his hackers
free reign to eavesdrop on
calls, harvest messages,
activate his camera and drain
the phone’s trove of personal
data.
Apple Inc. issued a
ix for the vulnerabilities
Thursday, just ahead of the
reports’ release, working at a
blistering pace for which the
Cupertino, California-based
company
was
widely
praised.
Arie van Deursen, a
professor of software engi-
neering at Delft University
of Technology in the Neth-
erlands, said the reports were
disturbing. Forensics expert
Jonathan Zdziarski described
the malicious program
targeting Mansoor as a
“serious piece of spyware.”
A
soft-spoken
man
who dresses in traditional
white robes, Mansoor has
repeatedly drawn the ire
of authorities in the United
Arab Emirates, calling for
a free press and democratic
freedoms. He is one of the
country’s few human rights
defenders with an interna-
tional proile, close links to
foreign media and a network
of sources. Mansoor’s work
has, at various times, cost
him his job, his passport and
even his liberty.
Online, Mansoor repeat-
edly found himself in the
crosshairs of electronic
eavesdropping operations.
Even before the irst
rogue text message pinged
across his phone on Aug.
10, Mansoor already had
weathered attacks from two
separate brands of commer-
cial spyware.
When he shared the
suspicious text with Citizen
Lab researcher Bill Marczak,
they realized he’d been
targeted by a third.
Citizen Lab and Lookout
both ingered a secretive
Israeli irm, NSO Group, as
the author of the spyware.
Citizen Lab said that past
targeting of Mansoor by
the United Arab Emirates’
government suggested that
it was likely behind the latest
hacking attempt as well.
Executives at the company
declined to comment, and
a visit to NSO’s address in
Herzliya showed that the
irm had recently vacated
its old headquarters — a
move recent enough that the
building still bore its logo.
In a statement released
Thursday which stopped
short of acknowledging that
the spyware was its own, the
NSO Group said its mission
was to provide “authorized
governments with tech-
nology that helps them
combat terror and crime.”
Marczak said he and
fellow-researcher
John
Scott-Railton turned to
Lookout for help to pick
apart the malicious program,
a process which Murray
compared to “defusing a
bomb.”
“It is amazing the level
they’ve gone through to
avoid detection,” Murray
said of the software’s
makers. “They have a hair-
trigger self-destruct.”
BRIEFLY
Turkey sends more
tanks to Syria,
insists on Kurdish
retreat
ANKARA, Turkey
(AP) — Turkey sent more
tanks into northern Syria on
Thursday and gave Syrian
Kurdish forces a week to
scale back their presence
near the Turkish border,
a day after it launched a
U.S.-backed cross-border
incursion to establish a
frontier zone free of the
Islamic State group and
Kurdish rebels.
Skirmishes broke out
between Turkish-backed
Syrian rebels and the
U.S.-backed Kurdish
ighters, raising the potential
for an all-out confrontation
between the two American
allies that would also
jeopardize the ight against
the Islamic State group in
the volatile area.
Turkey’s incursion
Wednesday to capture
the town of Jarablus was
a dramatic escalation of
Turkey’s role in Syria’s
war and adds yet another
powerhouse force on
the ground in an already
complicated conlict.
But Ankara’s objective
went beyond ighting
extremists. Turkey is also
aiming to contain the
expansion by Syria’s Kurds,
who have used the ight
against IS and the chaos of
Syria’s civil war to seize
nearly the entire stretch
of territory along Syria’s
northern border with Turkey.
Aftershocks rattle
Italian quake zone;
toll rises to 250
PESCARA DEL
TRONTO, Italy (AP) — As
the search for survivors
ground on, Premier Matteo
Renzi pledged new money
and measures Thursday to
rebuild quake-devastated
central Italy amid mounting
soul-searching over why the
seismic-prone country has
continually failed to ensure
its buildings can withstand
such catastrophes.
A day after the deadly
quake killed 250 people, a
4.3 magnitude aftershock
sent up plumes of thick gray
dust in the hard-hit town of
Amatrice. The aftershock
crumbled already cracked
buildings, rattled residents
and closed already clogged
roads.
It was only one of the
more than 470 temblors that
have followed Wednesday’s
pre-dawn quake.
Fireighters and rescue
crews using sniffer dogs
worked in teams around the
hard-hit areas in central Italy,
pulling chunks of cement,
rock and metal from mounds
of rubble where homes once
stood. Rescuers refused to
say when their work would
shift from saving lives to
recovering bodies, noting
that one person was pulled
alive from the rubble 72
hours after the 2009 quake in
the nearby town of L’Aquila.
“We will work
relentlessly until the last
person is found, and make
sure no one is trapped,” said
Lorenzo Botti, a rescue team
spokesman.
Worst affected by the
quake were the tiny towns of
Amatrice and Accumoli near
Rieti, 60 miles northeast
of Rome, and Pescara del
Tronto, 15 miles further east.
Many were left
homeless by the scale of
the destruction, their homes
and apartments declared
uninhabitable.
AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks at a campaign
event at Truckee Meadows Community College in Reno, Nev., Thursday.
Suddenly it’s Trump sounding soft on immigration
WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump defeated 16 rivals in the
Republican primaries by being the most anti-immigrant of them all,
promising to build a giant wall on the border and deport millions. He labeled
opponents like Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio as weak and amnesty-loving, and
his extreme rhetoric pushed the entire immigration debate to the right.
But suddenly, Trump is sounding like some of the people he defeated. In
an appearance on Fox News Channel’s “Hannity” show Wednesday, Trump
discussed how tough it is to break up families for deportation, suggesting
that maybe upstanding people who’ve been in this country for years should
be allowed to stay if they pay back taxes and insisting, just as Bush and
Rubio were repeatedly forced to do, that such actions would not amount to
“amnesty.”
“Everywhere I go I get the same reaction. They want toughness. They
want irmness. They want to obey the law,” Trump said. “But they feel that
throwing them out as a whole family when they’ve been here for a long time,
it’s a tough thing.”
Trump’s exact meaning was murky. And it was unclear if he was
unveiling a new stance or simply trying out new rhetoric to appeal to a
general election audience as he lags Democrat Hillary Clinton in polls 11
weeks before the election. His new campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway,
insisted on CNN Thursday that “nothing has changed in terms of the
policies.”
And Trump seemed to backtrack yet again less than 24 hours later,
saying on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360” Thursday evening that he would
not grant any legal status to immigrants here illegally unless they leave the
United States irst, something that would be burdensome and impractical
when applied to millions of people. “There is no path to legalization unless
they leave the country and come back,” he said.
Still, Trump’s new language seemed to reveal an awareness that his
unyielding stance against immigrants is unlikely to get him to the White
House, with Latinos voting in growing numbers in key states.
“He’s learned painfully, belatedly, that what stirs up a large part of the
Republican primary electorate is not what wins general elections,” said John
Rowe, a GOP donor and former CEO of Exelon, who’s planning to vote for
libertarian Gary Johnson. “You cannot win without women, Asians, Latinos,
African Americans.”
In an interview Thursday on ABC, Bush called Trump’s positioning
“abhorrent,” saying: “I can only say that whatever his views are this
morning, they might change this afternoon, and they were different than they
were last night, and they’ll be different tomorrow.”
There were signs that Trump risked angering hard-core supporters who
helped him win the nomination. Conservative commentator Ann Coulter,
who published a book called “In Trump We Trust,” reacted with angry tweets
to Trump’s comments on Fox, including remarking sardonically “Well, if it’s
‘hard,’ then never mind.”
GOP Rep. Steve King of Iowa, a leading immigration hardliner, said in an
interview that “I have some concerns at this point” over Trump’s stances.
The upside for Trump was not immediately apparent. Immigrant advocates
argued he would gain no ground with Hispanics by giving lip-service to
limited pro-immigrant measures while still insisting on the need for a border
wall. Advocates speculated that Trump’s goal was to woo independent voters
who might support him but are turned off by his harsher stances.
denounce the support he’s garnered
from white nationalists and suprema-
cists, including former Ku Klux Klan
Grand Wizard David Duke.
Trump, who also met Thursday
in New York with members of a new
Republican Party initiative meant to
train young — and largely minority
— volunteers, has been working to
win over blacks and Latinos in light of
his past inlammatory comments and
has been claiming that the Democrats
have taken minority voters’ support for
granted. At rallies over the past week,
the Republican presidential nominee
cast Democratic policies as harmful to
communities of color, and in Missis-
sippi on Wednesday he went so far as
to label Clinton “a bigot.”
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pays for my
children’s
activities.
“They’ve been very disrespectful,
as far as I’m concerned, to the
African-American population in this
country,” Trump said.
Many black leaders and voters
have dismissed Trump’s message —
delivered to predominantly white rally
audiences — as condescending and
intended more to reassure undecided
white voters that he’s not racist, than
to actually help minority communities.
Cornell William Brooks, president
of the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People, told
C-SPAN’s “Newsmakers” Thursday
that Trump has not reached out to the
organization for any reason. He added
that Trump refused the group’s invita-
tion to speak at its convention.
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AP Photo/Jon Gambrell
Human rights activist Ahmed Mansoor shows journal-
ists a screenshot of a spoof text message he received
in Ajman, United Arab Emirates, on Thursday.
MANCHESTER, N.H. — Hillary
Clinton said Thursday that Donald
Trump has unleashed the “radical
fringe” within the Republican Party,
including anti-Semites and white
supremacists, dubbing the billionaire
businessman’s campaign as one that
will “make America hate again.”
Trump rejected Clinton’s allega-
tions, defending his hard-line approach
to immigration while trying to make
the case to minority voters that Demo-
crats have abandoned them.
The ping-pong accusations come
as the two candidates vie for minori-
ties and any undecided voters with
less than three months until Election
Day. Weeks before the irst early
voting, Trump faces the urgent task of
revamping his image to win over those
skeptical of his candidacy.
In a tweet shortly after Clinton
wrapped up her speech in the swing
state of Nevada, Trump said she “is
pandering to the worst instincts in our
society. She should be ashamed of
herself!” Clinton is eager to capitalize
on Trump’s slipping poll numbers,
particularly among moderate Repub-
lican women turned off by his contro-
versial campaign.
“Don’t be fooled” by Trump’s
efforts to rebrand, she told voters at
a speech in Reno, saying the country
faced a “moment of reckoning.”
“He’s taking hate groups main-
stream and helping a radical fringe
take over one of America’s two major
political parties,” she said.
Trump tried to get ahead of the
Democratic nominee, addressing a
crowd in Manchester, New Hampshire
just minutes before Clinton.
“Hillary Clinton is going to try to
accuse this campaign, and the millions
of decent Americans who support this
campaign, of being racists,” Trump
predicted.
“To Hillary Clinton, and to her
donors and advisers, pushing her to
spread her smears and her lies about
decent people, I have three words,” he
said. “I want you to hear these words,
and remember these words: Shame on
you.”
Trump tried to turn the tables on
Clinton, suggesting she was trying to
distract from questions swirling around
donations to The Clinton Foundation
and her use of her private email servers.
“She lies, she smears, she paints
decent Americans as racists,” said
Trump, who then defended some of the
core — and to some people, divisive
— ideas of his candidacy.
Clinton did not address any of the
accusations about her family founda-
tion in her remarks.
Instead, she offered a strident
denouncement of Trump’s campaign,
charging him with fostering hate
and pushing discriminatory policies,
like his proposed temporary ban on
Muslims entering the United States.
Her speech focused on the so-called
alt-right movement, which is often
associated with efforts on the far right
to preserve “white identity,” oppose
multiculturalism and defend “Western
values.” Discussions about the alt-right
movement became the subject of a
Twitter war Thursday, with people on
both sides of the debate tweeting under
the hashtag altrightmeans.
“#altrightmeans we don’t want to
kill you we just want you to go away,”
tweeted one person.
“#altrightmeans white supremacy.
That’s all Alt Right is. Another code
word for white supremacy. Nothing
more nothing less,” another tweet said.
Clinton’s campaign also released
an online video that compiles footage
of prominent white supremacist
leaders praising Trump, who has been
criticized for failing to immediately
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