He can hack your WhatsApp, find out where you are in 15 minutes and monitor your iPhone. But Tal Dilian says he's one of the good guys
, a company Dilian is closely associated with: His first surveillance business, Circles, merged with NSO in 2014, when U.S. private equity firm took control of both for a total of $250 million. NSO has since strenuously denied having anything to do with Khashoggi’s death.attempt to hack the WhatsApp and iPhone of a U.K.-based human rights lawyer
Dilian brushes off the criticism. Don’t blame the dealers, blame the customers, he argues. “We are not the policemen of the world, and we are not the judges of the world,” he adds, suggesting that it’s down to governments to ensure that export controls and other safeguards are adequate to prevent use against the civil rights and journalist communities. “It’s hypocritical to come and say, ‘How come you sold to Mexico?’ It’s legitimate. Why not? If the U.S. approves sales to Mexico, the E.U.
That deal has brought controversy after the plaintiffs released what they claimed was an email interaction between Dilian’s former Circles cofounder Eric Banoun and Ahmad Ali Al Hibsi, from the National Council for National Security in the U.A.E. The plaintiffs claimed it showed discussions about spying on phones belonging to the Emir of Qatar and the prime minister of Lebanon.
Next came an abortive attempt to get an engineering firm, SolarEdge, off the ground, but then he struck gold with Circles. After over a decade away from the spy-tech world, Dilian joined two partners—Banoun and Boaz Goldman—in 2010 to set up what was, at the time, a revolutionary surveillance technology. With a single phone number, the company could locate a smartphone. With more options on the market, the cost of this form of tracking has decreased.
He plans to make a lot more with Intellexa, believing he can turn it into a $100 million revenue a year proposition before the end of 2020. In a few years, he’s thinking $300 million to $500 million, built on the back of the five separate companies that form the “alliance.
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