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| How Mexico Became the Biggest User of the World’s Most Notorious Spy Tool | How Mexico Became the Biggest User of the World’s Most Notorious Spy Tool |
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| The Israelis had come to Mexico to clinch a major sale: The Mexican military was about to become the first client ever to buy their product, the world’s most advanced spyware. | The Israelis had come to Mexico to clinch a major sale: The Mexican military was about to become the first client ever to buy their product, the world’s most advanced spyware. |
| But before they could close the deal, an argument erupted over price and how quickly the spy tool could be delivered. A Mexican general overseeing the negotiations called for a pause until later that evening, according to two people present and a third with knowledge of the talks. | But before they could close the deal, an argument erupted over price and how quickly the spy tool could be delivered. A Mexican general overseeing the negotiations called for a pause until later that evening, according to two people present and a third with knowledge of the talks. |
| “We’ll pick you up at your hotel and make sure to arrange a better atmosphere,” they recalled the general saying. | “We’ll pick you up at your hotel and make sure to arrange a better atmosphere,” they recalled the general saying. |
| That night, a convoy of cars arrived at the Israeli executives’ hotel and took them to a new spot for the fateful negotiations: a strip club in the heart of Mexico City. | That night, a convoy of cars arrived at the Israeli executives’ hotel and took them to a new spot for the fateful negotiations: a strip club in the heart of Mexico City. |
| The general’s security team ordered all the other clientele to leave the club, the three people said, and the talks resumed. | |
| It was in that dark cabaret in March 2011, among women dancing onstage and shots of tequila, that the most powerful cyberweapon in existence got its start. |