The public sentiment surrounding the Pegasus spyware controversy in India is predominantly negative, with widespread distrust and criticism directed at the Indian government. There is significant concern over privacy violations, government surveillance, and the alleged misuse of power against citizens, activists, journalists, and political dissidents. Criticism extends to media coverage perceived as biased or insufficient, as well as skepticism towards the current government's transparency and accountability. Humor and satire are used by some to underscore their cynicism. There is a strong call for independent investigations and reform to address the broader narrative of governmental failure.

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The Indian government is not doing enough to take down spammers.

Laymanao

A relevant Washington Post story, Dec 2023:

&gt; [India targets Apple over its phone hacking notifications: A day after Apple warned independent Indian journalists and opposition party politicians in October that government hackers may have tried to break into their iPhones, officials under Prime Minister Narendra Modi promptly took action — against Apple](https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/12/27/india-apple-iphone-hacking/)

&gt; Many of the more than 20 people who received Apple’s warnings at the end of October have been publicly critical of Modi or his longtime ally, Gautam Adani, an Indian energy and infrastructure tycoon... 

&gt; Of the journalists who received notifications, two stood out: Anand Mangnale and Ravi Nair of the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, a nonprofit alliance of dozens of independent, investigative newsrooms from around the world.

&gt; On Aug. 23, the OCCRP emailed Adani seeking comment for a story it would publish a week later alleging that his brother was part of a group that had secretly traded hundreds of millions of dollars worth of the Adani Group conglomerate’s public stock, possibly in violation of Indian securities law. **A forensic analysis of Mangnale’s phone, conducted by Amnesty International and shared with The Washington Post, found that within 24 hours of that inquiry, an attacker infiltrated the device and planted Pegasus, the notorious spyware that was developed by Israeli company NSO Group and that NSO says is sold only to governments.**

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Narrator2012

That is quite the word salad of a headline.

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KeySurprise2034

India went from being the world’s helpful tech support call center to a wannabe Ruzzia in a span of a decade.

t_johnson_noob

People just need to update their darn phones.  With rare exceptions, if there’s no jailbreak then there’s no implemented exploit.

Apple is generally a good buyer of hacks, and I doubt very much they’re selling to mossad.

CaptainFingerling

Gonna guess this is Apple wanting to make sure not to upset the entities that make them the most money, since those are the same entitties running the state-sponsored attacks.

Good to see Apple being morally upright once again; almost as morally upright as fucking Enron or Monsanto.

Hey, anyone remember when Tim Cook used Goerge Floyd and his tragic death as a soap box at WWDC 2020 to show how "moral" he and Apple is? It was *fucking sickening*. 

Hey Apple, at least Google and Microsoft don't fucking preach about morality while they do horrific shit in the background, so maybe you could finally SHUT THE FUCK UP ABOUT MORAL HIGHGROUNDS FFS.

JamesR624

CEO of Apple enjoys the freedom of his lifestyle but enables state sponsored crackdowns of others.

ManicChad

This is a nice feature. Does android also alert you when you're being fucked with?

Fallingdamage

They changed the warning after Tim cook went and came back from china.. I wonder why...

TheEDMWcesspool

The term mercenary spyware includes state-sponsored and non-state actors. Since it is not possible for Apple to find out who is behind the attack, it's more accurate wording.

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Answer: a high-level recounting of the facts:

- A collection of media agencies and journalists, organized by Forbidden Stories, acquired a leak of ~50k phone numbers. The journalists allege that many, if not all, of these phone numbers were hacked by NSO using their *Pegasus* software.

- The phone numbers of Big People You Know, Who Probably Don't Enjoy Being Watched -- including France's Emmanuel Macron, the inner circle of the Dalai Lama, and the US's chief negotiator for the Iran deal, and the prime ministers of Pakistan, Mexico, and Morocco -- were found on the list.

- Pegasus allows a customer to compromise a device and exfiltrate data from said device. This can be done remotely, and sometimes without the owner of the device doing anything (this is called a "zero-click" exploit). 

- Using new forensic techniques, Amnesty International and Citizen Lab, in coordination with the aforementioned journalists, were able to identify signs of compromise or attempted compromise on many of the devices on the phone number list. These include journalists, relatives of people of interest (e.g., Jamal Khashoggi's fasmily), and in some cases government officials.

- Amnesty International was not able to verify that all devices on the list were compromised. There's a couple reasons for this; first, some people got new phones outright, or did not offer their phones for analysis. Second, Pegasus is much easier to track on iOS than on Android devices; this is why much of the news coverage you might see talks about iPhones.

- NSO, the company that maintains Pegasus, insists that presence of a number on the list does not indicate that it was targeted or compromised. It also insists that its customers are vetted by the Israeli government and are contractually obligated to only use Pegasus for legitimate law enforcement purposes. NSO also insists that it has terminated contracts with countries that violate said contractual obligation.

I can source claims if needed.

I'm writing this off the top of my head, but here are some good resources (decoupled from the claims I make in this comment):

- https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/07/18/what-to-know-spyware-pegasus/

- https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2021/07/18/takeaways-nso-pegasus-project/

- https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/interactive/2021/jamal-khashoggi-wife-fiancee-cellphone-hack/?itid=lk_inline_manual_2

Answer: The 50,000 names of potential targerd are also likely only the tip of the Iceberg. It is suspected that they were only around 1 third of the list which has another 100,000 on. We don't know if there are other countries / governments doing the spying. Also NSO is only 1 of six companies in the world making this kind of tech, so basically you can assume that everyone is spying on everyone.

Also the really shocking thing for me about this project was the scale to which this software can hack your phone. It is basically impossible to defend against, it infects all apple and iPhone software even in their most recent versions. And it cannot be detected very easily. Even if you manage to remove it from your phone, it can be hacked again within 10/20 minutes and currently there is no defence.

thebrainitaches

Answer: I think others have explained the recent leak, so I'll limit myself to talking more about Pegasus as software. To back up a little, almost every country has have some sort of "lawful intercept" capability, i.e. wiretapping. For mobile phones, there are a lot of ways you can do this, but generally the FBI-equivalent will go to the telecom provider with a warrant and that will grant access to the target's phone traffic. That includes metadata (who they called, when, for how long), SMS (which is always unencrypted), potentially voice and data depending on the situation. Some countries centralize things a bit; for example, Russia routes all telecommunications traffic through an intercept system called SORM and the government has it when they want it.  

That's pretty handy but it comes with some limitations. You have to invest a lot of resources breaking encryption on data in transit, which covers increasingly more data. Anyone who is worried about being snooped on is probably using a VPN and a dedicated encrypted messaging app like Signal or Telegram and the government may not even be able to break through. Unless you have a system like SORM, you're not going to get any historical data from before the time you started collecting. Phones also move around a lot, which can be a pain in the best case and cut your access entirely in the worst case, for example if they take the phone outside your country.  

From a collection standpoint, grabbing traffic is nice but you really want to compromise the device itself. With the right tool, that lets you access more or less everything on the device, which may also include credentials for web accounts with more data you might want.  
NSO Group's public sales pitch is that they are providing governments with that lawful intercept tool. Of course, a lot of countries either don't have rule of law in the first place, or the law actively oppresses their citizens, or there's a lack of oversight into the use of Pegasus in the first place. So while NSO Group is ostensibly selling a tool to catch terrorists, mobsters, and child abusers, in actuality they routinely sell the tool to governments that are buying it to spy on dissidents, human rights advocates, and journalists. NSO Group is hardly the only company in this industry and Citizen Lab does a lot of excellent work exposing these companies. Based on the leaked list of phone numbers--which people assume means they were surveillance targets--a lot of dictators and authoritarian governments are using it to spy on potential threats to the regime including the leader's cabinet and family. It is likely also being used for inter-state espionage, even though that could cause some major headaches for NSO Group.  

Pegasus was first reported in 2016 but it's been around for longer, possibly dating back to 2011. Pegasus may be a shorthand for multiple tools, or it may just be basically the same app that's been ported from iPhone to Android and updated. The malware itself is scary but not terribly interesting or unique. What really sets NSO Group apart is that they have on multiple occasions found and weaponized (or bought) zero-click zero-day exploits to deliver Pegasus to targets. Zero-click meaning you don't need to victim to do anything, and zero-day meaning there's no fix available for the underlying vulnerability. These things are basically an "I win" button for the attacker and everyone on earth who wants to hack an iPhone is hunting them, including most top tier intelligence agencies, NSO Group and their competitors, and security researchers looking to make a name for themselves.  

Pegasus is supposedly subject to Israeli arms control regulation, assuming that NSO Group completely abides by it. But even you're someone the Israeli government won't let NSO Group sell to (Iran), there's other companies who probably will. And if you're really hard up, there's probably a country with a top-tier offensive cyber capability that would love it if you owed them a favor. So even in the unlikely event that these leaks destroy NSO Group, the phenomenon isn't going away.

CarmenEtTerror

Answer: It seems to date back about a decade, I found this e-mail about it in the wikileaks archives, dated to 2013 and it seems to be in use by then and known to governments https://wikileaks.org/hackingteam/emails/emailid/572072

MorrisonsLament

Answer: Talking about the Indian perspective, Several opposition leaders, senior journalists, a sitting Supreme Court justice, and an election strategist were suspected to be hacked using Pegasus by (allegedly) the Indian government. The Indian government has dismissed claims of ‘unauthorised hacking’, and is so far refusing investigations.

LordSaumya

Answer: Pegasus is a spyware made by the Israel-based NSO group. Now NSO group told that it sold the spyware to only government-vetted entities. Now the reason why it has caused such a controversy (in India) is that hacking is a criminal offense and surveillance via Pegasus requires devices to be hacked. Also, a lot of Opposition leaders, human rights activists, journalists, had their phones surveilled via Pegasus. The main  controversy is that the government seems to be in open violation of its own rules to surveil and allow surveillance via what is a criminal offence

Desi_Otaku

Possible but also rare enough to make it noteworthy (aside from the ethical transgressions). 0day(s) resulting in RCE within text messaging could be one or (highly likely) multiple chained vulns in anything from protocol to text parsing.

idkwtftodonow

There is a pretty big problem with almost all phone designs caused by the power-saving and miniaturization - everything got integrated.  


Your mobile radio is a microcomputer of it's own that often uses system memory as its RAM - both due to cost and space savings (one ram chip less) and to speed things up - system can use DMA instead of having a gigabit speed interface between radio and main chip. The problem is that IOMMU was (I don't know about really recent designs) something unheard of. So you basically have a dedicated chip that is connected to the main memory without any safeguards and that runs some glued-up code handling everything from the old GSM through 3G, LTE, etc. There is almost no documentation available, almost no updates and no viable ways to test it if you don't have a pretty expensive setup.

I'm pretty sure there are some framing errors leading to buffer overflows waiting to be published. I wouldn't be surprised if you can compromise large number of phones by just advertising a fake tower for a moment e.g. to target all people at some location.


&gt;Nowadays all updated versions of the mobile OS even ask for permissions for all apps, so I cannot really believe how this happened.

Because it's not an app. It's likely an RCE 0 day that hijacks iMessage or one of the components it uses that is running with high enough privileges to touch the system. At that level you don't have to play by the iOS app sandbox rules. Not only is it real but it's lucrative. Someone like zerodium will pay $1.5 million for an iMessage RCE. The problem with the business of spyware using zero days is the more customers you have using it, it's only a matter of time before the use of that 0day is discovered and patched, which is what's happening here.

glockfreak

To normal people and normal companies, it's on the "very unlikely" to "impossible" level. The groups that make these kinds of cracks/hacks, like Cellebrite and NSO, receive blank checks from various governments to create them and are insanely secretive to keep the exploits from being found and patched.

NullReference000

The answer is yes, it's possible. If you really think about hacking and tech you end up down a rabbit hole of a thought experiment. 

The solution to the problem ends up looking like what the military has. You'd have to build a separate physical network that's physically guarded and attempt to stop signals from entering or escaping via the environment.

Look into siprnet, tempest, emsec, taclane, etc if you are interested.

The problem is that none of this is practical for anyone except those working in defense. All cyber security problems eventually become physics problems if you take them far enough...

Also a leaker who has trust can just leak the data anyways, so there's also a human element! e.g. Snowden

So in the normal world, we rely on just encryption, hardware, and software because that's more practical! People can use it without vast effort and it won't require a defense sized budget.

There is no perfect security. So now we just end up with an economic problem. Is your target too expensive? The overall practical goal is to make your opponent spend more time, effort and money then the data they are trying to steal is worth.

ApprehensiveAnimal85

Martino545

Loudstealth

A few years back you could send a simple text to iPhones that would restart or wipe the phone. I thought it was total crap so I tried the restart text on a friend and sure enough his phone hard rebooted. I'm really glad I didn't try the wipe command.

DemonNecron

I find it funny how pegasus is known for years to be spyware, yet now people starting being rattled about it.

I’m fairly certain that the extensive research all of those groups did on this shows that yes, it’s absolutely possible. 
When you are a company like NSO, you focus on making those impossible sounding things possible. 
Security research in Israel in general tends to surface some pretty amazing stuff.

psychicsailboat

is ther any demo avilable? how do you find the malware installed?

rrk82

Saudi Arabia reportedly hacked Jeff Bezos’ phone via an attachment sent on WhatsApp by MBS. This seems like a pretty natural extension of that.

teemodidntdieforthis

Are the master websites (to which the Pegasus software connects for download and analysis of the stolen data) not themselves vulnerable to DDoS attacks?

Active_Fennel_313

Interesting video about the Pegasus incident... unfortunately in German only:

[https://youtu.be/kA0xQ9f7C\_U?si=lL4P4iQUXxpr85bi](https://youtu.be/kA0xQ9f7C_U?si=lL4P4iQUXxpr85bi)

Andy86f

&gt;The Guardian, and other reliable sources,

Lol!

TheBlurstOfGuys

kinda like a SQL injection type of thing?

PaPaKAPture

the way i understand it those messaging apps parse code and execute more code from the internet. so you send it a message that links to a malicious message and there is a phone call aspect to the hack that activates it

lost_in_life_34

So, is there some way to determine if my iPhone has been hacked?

willie137

Most simple solution is just to use dummy phones such as 3300 and other old ones.The ones that doesn't use internet.

everyoneismean

Yes. Like 5 or 6 years their were stories about commercial off the shelf software that could do this. I think i remember one was called mispy? Or something like that.

UhOh-Chongo

Only real protection - turn off your phone 📱and even then not forget a turn off phone still is active 🤓 - so no phone is the only fully secure method

Naive_Inspection8183

Praveentechh

Apple had an issue a few years back where you cold crash an iphone by sending it a specially crafted text message, so there is definitely some level of vulnerability in the way phones receive/parse/handle SMS messages.

gerowen

I’m curious … can spywares like Pegasus or others hack PGPs?

steve__81

Wow. So the """world's biggest democracy""" used spyware made by the """only democracy in the Middle East""" to target journalists and politicians.

bleedinglips

Important bits concerning PM Khan:

&gt;Prominent Indian politician Rahul Gandhi and **Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan were selected as potential targets of the Israeli-made Pegasus spyware program by clients of the NSO Group cyberespionage firm**, a global investigation can reveal Monday.   
&gt;  
&gt;**The database only includes potential targets – a wish list of sorts from NSO’s clients – and not verified targets.** But traces of NSO software were found in more than 85 percent of the analyses conducted by Amnesty International on iPhones that were used by potential victims across the world at the time of their number's selection.   
&gt;  
&gt;**Khan did not respond to a request for comment from the Washington Post.** 

From [Dawn](https://www.dawn.com/news/1636010):

&gt;According to The Post, more than 1,000 phone numbers in India appeared on the surveillance list while hundreds were from Pakistan, including the one PM Imran once used. However, **The Post did not specify whether the surveillance attempt on PM Imran's number was successful**.

Pak_Info_Bot

&gt;	According to The Guardian, the numbers “strongly indicate that intelligence agencies within the Indian government were operating the system.”

&gt;	Additional potential targets included Pakistani officials, including a number once associated with Pakistani leader Khan. They also included Kashmiri separatists, leading Tibetan religious figures and even an Indian supreme court judge. Khan did not respond to a request for comment from the Washington Post.

Man I really hope the joint investigation over the Dassu terrorist attack that killed 9 Chinese civilians will be the start of a joint China-Pakistan effort to nail India for its underhanded tactics to foment regional instability.

ZakoottaJinn

I'm just impressed with the romantic beach picture... Modi's lover has been booted out, his turn will come eventually

Curious_Rddit

why is it always israel that has the top of the range super secret spyware

JJosuke434

This is hot 🔥.

https://www.theguardian.com/news/series/pegasus-project

Unsure if we should beef up encryption and authentication standards or just go back to talking in person lol.

1creeperbomb

Feel bad for India...what a sham State it has become

brownblackmamba

i cant find the libtards dying to recogniza is\*eal kyunke UNHON NE HAMARA KYA BIGARA H

worstnightmare44

I don't think the fear should be limited to NSO sypware.

There are two powerful autocratic states like China and Russia who are good enough to build such software.

Common people should find a way to identify spying in phone.

star_play3r

Hear me out basic and simple solution for these mudi and shah goons is that BJP should be declared a terrorist organization .

[Supreme Court Registrars, Lawyers of Key Clients and Old Number of an SC Judge on Pegasus Radar](https://thewire.in/law/supreme-court-registrars-lawyers-of-key-clients-and-old-number-of-an-sc-judge-on-pegasus-radar)

Justice Arun Mishra

Indianopolice

Just last week, Kerala police found a parallel phone exchange system in several places, connected to Bengaluru and many other cities too, with some serious connection with Pakistan.  Some of these people were working in the Gulf too.  Concurrently there are too many gold smuggling cases in Kerala where allegedly, (allegedly) the government's ministers and chief minister's office people are involved, including the secretary etc.  

On one hand we all can blame Central Govt and Pegasus project.  How else will you actually know who are the thieves in the boat itself?

How’s Modi and the ruling BJP govt still didn’t get no confidence motion and toppled? With so many names and that too before 2019, it’s very clear how his party won a landslide.

ireddit2014

N Ram and Shashi Kumar have appealed to the SC to order a probe: [Pegasus Scandal: 2 Senior Journalists Want Supreme Court To Order Probe](https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/pegasus-scandal-senior-journalists-n-ram-sashi-kumar-want-supreme-court-to-order-probe-2495690).

freddledgruntbugly

https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/.premium-with-israel-s-encouragement-nso-sold-spyware-to-uae-and-other-gulf-states-1.9093465

&gt; To prevent intelligence information from leaking out, **Pegasus “commits suicide” if a device with the software enters five countries: Israel, Iran, Russia, China and the United States.** So if a Saudi citizen whose cellphone has been infected with the spyware lands in Moscow, his device recognizes that it’s in Russia and the software is wiped from the phone. **The purpose is to avoid getting in trouble with states that will not tolerate espionage within their borders, such as China and the United States**, or in the case of Iran, to avoid exposing secrets to hostile countries.


https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/jul/23/how-nso-became-the-company-whose-software-can-spy-on-the-world

&gt;“The [company’s] regulations are a state secret,” said one insider. But the group is ultimately guided by one golden rule: **“There are three jurisdictions you don’t fuck with: the US, Israel and the Russians.”**


Compare how countries like USA, Russia and China deal with foreign agencies spying on its citizens,  with the excuses given by the weaklings in the Indian government. 

["If Over 45 Countries Use Pegasus, Why Target Just India?" Says BJP](https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/bjp-on-pegasus-ravi-shankar-prasad-says-over-45-countries-using-pegasus-why-just-target-india-2490023)



India to me, looks like a banana republic in Africa to which foreign nations sell arms, that are then used by greedy dictators to terrorise their own citizens.


An opinion piece from our FM's husband Mr Parakala Prabhakar.

https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/joining-the-dots-in-the-second-coming-of-pegasus/article35529099.ece

*Judiciary as bulwark*

*The only institution in the present situation that can make the Government accountable is the judiciary. The track record of our top court on major issues of defining importance to our national life is at best mixed in the recent past. What it chooses to do or not do now can make a difference to India. The options before it are clear as they are stark. To allow the present government a free run in turning India into a surveillance state is one. The other is to stop the Government in its tracks, restore to its people the gift of a free and liberal state that the founding fathers of the Republic gave them. The country has very little time.*

I suppose, the only solution to this is to have a separate sim for calls and sms on a dumb phone (like Nokia) while use Telegram that allow usage without a Phone number as opposed to WhatsApp - Only use the sim in the main phone for internet access if using Cellular Data but one can use Wifi with a Broadband Connection provided by an ISP.

If not, using strictly Signal can at least limit exposure from Public Groups to harvest your phone number collectively.

Avieshek

The matter of fact is that the confidence of the public has been shook. In order to restore confidence the government needs to conduct an independent judicial inquiry into this issue. It is not an option for the government to agree or not to agree to conduct one, the government is of the masses and not their personal property. They expect you to take them at their word when everything they have done thus far has been against the interest of the public. How can they stand there and assume any credibility when millions of people have died, demonetization has wiped out peoples life savings, and the GST has yet to produce any tangible benefits. This is absolutely absurd. If there is an inkling of evidence that India's citizens are being targeted by anyone, why are they not curious as to finding out who? i mean think about it, using the taxpayers money to hire a foreign state entity to spy on the taxpayer themselves. Isnt that border line treasonous once you start seeing people involved in critical institutions of the country on that list?

preme890206

Amnesty International has released the Mobile Verification Toolkit - MVT - on GitHub. It is to detect hacking by malware like Pegasus. The repository is here: https://GitHub.com/mvt-project/mvt

Beautiful_Golf6322

Amnesty International has released the Mobile Verification Toolkit - MVT - on a GitHub. It is to detect hacking by malware like Pegasus. The repository is here: https://GitHub.com/mvt-project/mvt

What are going to do about this? Continue to act like morally superior pacifists or make some moves?

blaster1988

pseudoalpha

This is starting to look really like 1984......

TP4297

Must watch. [Prime Time With Ravish Kumar: Pegasus Probes Ordered In Israel, France. Why Not In India? - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWWhX_viMdc "Prime Time With Ravish Kumar: Pegasus Probes Ordered In Israel, France. Why Not In India? - YouTube")

rishianand

https://thewire.in/rights/pegasus-project-anil-ambani-dassault-india-representative-boeing-india

Muidji trying to ensure the kickback doesn't disappear!

charavaka

https://thewire.in/government/pegasus-project-chronology-samajhiye-hours-after-midnight-coup-cbi-chiefs-phones-entered-surveillance-zone

What's most interesting is that some accounts are vigorously defending / denying the leaks. I hope they are paid enough by the BJP to undermine the nation and its people.

Add former CBI Chief Alok Verma to the list.

[‘Chronology Samajhiye’: Hours After Midnight Coup, CBI Chief Alok Verma Entered Surveillance Zone](https://thewire.in/government/pegasus-project-chronology-samajhiye-hours-after-midnight-coup-cbi-chiefs-phones-entered-surveillance-zone "‘Chronology Samajhiye’: Hours After Midnight Coup, CBI Chief Alok Verma Entered Surveillance Zone")

[Pegasus Project: 115 Names Revealed By The Wire On Snoop List So Far](https://thewire.in/rights/project-pegasus-list-of-names-uncovered-spyware-surveillance "Pegasus Project: 115 Names Revealed By The Wire On Snoop List So Far")

Grasshopper04

Hi, if you want a simple explainer on the project and how Pegasus works, do check out my video on Newslaundry.

https://youtu.be/MFtwPqyyrYs

kumbhakaran

https://indianexpress.com/article/technology/techook/pegasus-spyware-how-to-check-if-your-ios-android-device-is-infected-7413939/

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ranchi/pegasus-fallout-cong-plans-protest-march-to-raj-bhavan/articleshow/84597643.cms


A number of political parties are organizing protests at raj bhavans across the country on 22nd. If you can make the time and care enough about the country, do show up, regardless of whether or not you support the specfic party organizing the protest at your location.

lawda_lehsun

After everything, how is this govt still managing to stay in power? 
And almost all govts are peeping toms. Not surprised but only disappointed, all this atmanirbhat non sense only to rely on foreign israeli spyware to spy on sensitive information of its own citizens. This is terrorism of privacy

And interesting thing to point out, there were reports on Indian foreign secretary having talks with taliban, days later danish dies in afghanistan. Now turns out people were being spied upon and all info are leaked.

Make the connection yourself

Snow_Onion1

Shouldn't every citizen have access to their representatives phones? Given how many terrorists sit in Parliament and high offices today that might be a good idea and we might actually reduce crime.

fatherofgodfather

I really wish that this somehow be the end of BJP government's popularity.

Even after dereliction in handling the COVID disaster, (to me) it seemed like the government would turn the public perception in their favour (with their most efficient propaganda machinery and populist tactics) and people would just forget THE SECOND WAVE (and the other things) by the time the next elections come.

And though the government got out some reproval out of the courts, I feel like the opposition did not do enough to round up the government.

But this is something that affects the most prominent members of opposition, judiciary, executive, media very personally- not only in India but world over. Maybe, just maybe they will rally together very strongly this time in what may prove to be a big blow to the government's image?

The Supreme Court of India is addressing the use of Israeli spyware, Pegasus, in the country. Although the possession and use of spyware for national security are deemed acceptable, concerns arise over potential misuse against journalists, activists, and politicians. The court emphasized that individuals' privacy must be respected, and investigation reports should not compromise national security. The matter, having been examined by a court-appointed committee, will be reconsidered to determine whether private citizens were specifically targeted. This scrutiny follows revelations from U.S. court findings about international misuse of Pegasus, including in India.

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