Surveillance
What is Pegasus, the chosen tool for ‘total surveillance’? https://www.livemint.com/technology/tech-news/what-is-pegasus-the-chosen-tool-for-total-surveillance-11572578636720.html The malware can infect devices via phishing text messages that trick users into clicking a particular link.. the spyware completes the process in the background..., completely out of the user’s notice. This, combined with the fact that Pegasus doesn’t require the user’s attention is one of the reasons why the spyware is so dangerous and popular amongst security contractors.
Once on your phone, Pegasus has access to data that’s already on your phone...It can also listen to you and sounds around you through the phone’s microphones, record incoming and outgoing calls, capture screenshots and use the phone’s camera to take photos.
Security experts have repeatedly advised against downloading suspicious files, clicking on unknown links etc. and those remain the best way to fight this malware.
HIDE AND SEEK: Tracking NSO Group’s Pegasus Spyware to Operations in 45 Countries https://citizenlab.ca/2018/09/hide-and-seek-tracking-nso-groups-pegasus-spyware-to-operations-in-45-countries/ By Bill Marczak, John Scott-Railton, Sarah McKune, Bahr Abdul Razzak, and Ron Deibert September 18, 2018
Full Report: https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/bitstream/1807/95391/1/Report%23113--hide%20and%20seek.pdf
WhatsApp has revealed that the messaging app was used to spy on at least two dozen journalists and human rights activists, likely by the Indian government. By Prateek Goyal 31 Oct, 2019
Newslaundry identified a few of the persons who said they were targeted by the spyware.
Nihalsingh Rathod is a human rights lawyer in Nagpur, Maharashtra, who represents several of the accused in the Bhima Koregaon case.
Bela Bhatia is a human rights activist, based in Chhattisgarh’s troubled Bastar region.
Degree Prasad Chouhan is a lawyer and activist who campaigns for the cultural and social rights of Dalits and Adivasis.
Anand Teltumbde - The professor, writer and civil rights activist
Sidhant Sibal is the principal diplomatic and defence correspondent for Wion TV channel.
Shalini Gera a human rights lawyer with the Jagdalpur Legal Aid Group
Rupali Jadhav is with the cultural group Kabir Kala Manch
Shubhranshu Choudhary launched India’s first community radio on mobile phone, CGnet Swara. (Works for in Chhattisgarh.
Saroj Giri is assistant professor, Political Science, at Delhi University.
Vivek Sundara - a social and environmental activist based in Mumbai
Ashish Gupta - an activist with the Peoples Union for Democratic Rights
Ankit Grewal - The Chandigarh-based lawyer who has represented Sudha Bhardwaj
Godi Media and Pegasus / गोदी मीडिया और अन्तराष्ट्रीय साज़िश 19 July - 22 July 2021 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bl5IpGgp6E8 A Compilation of Debates by Godi Media between 19 - 22 July 2021 covering the Pegasus Software Surveillance Scandal.
Unsafe and unchecked: government use of spyware raging around the world https://www.accessnow.org/government-spyware-raging/ 19 July 2021
“Spyware is proving time and time again to be incompatible with human rights,” said Raman Jit Singh Chima, Global Cybersecurity Lead at Access Now. “No matter where it’s deployed, there are always opportunities for exploitation, and its rampant misuse is making global digital communications insecure.”
Natalia Krapiva, Tech Legal Counsel at Access Now. “The industry has shown that it is incapable of policing itself, while governments — including democratic states — are hiding behind national security to whitewash these surveillance abuses. We need regulation, transparency, and accountability now.”
Citizens Must Push Back, They Could One Day Be Affected Too | Pegasus | Raman Chima |Sidharth Bhatia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1GN8se5O3I The use of Pegasus to spy on politicians, activists and journalists is a human rights violation. India’s diplomats will have to answer questions when they visit foreign capitals, says Raman Chima of Access Now, a global digital rights body. Plus, investors will think twice about coming to India because they too will worry about being snooped upon.
In an interview with Sidharth Bhatia of The Wire, Chima says this software will also encourage the police to use digital tech to spy on citizens. Citizens should push back and demand accountability because they could be targets one day
Pegasus Project: Woman Who Accused Fmr. CJI Ranjan Gogoi Potential Snoop Target | Sexual Harassment https://youtu.be/LBXYlDp_kGE?t=80
अप्रैल 2019 में भारत के पूर्व मुख्य न्यायाधीश रंजन गोगोई पर यौन उत्पीड़न का आरोप लगा, यह आरोप सुप्रीम कोर्ट की एक कर्मचारी ने लगाया था और अब जानकारी यह आ रही है कि आरोप लगाने वाली सुप्रीम कोर्ट की कर्मचारी से संबंधित 11 फोन नंबर इज़राइल स्थित एनएसओ समूह की ग्राहक- एक अज्ञात भारतीय एजेंसी द्वारा निगरानी के उद्देश्य से संभावित हैक के लिए चुने गए थे. इस जानकारी के सामने आने के बाद से ही प्राइवेसी, लैंगिक न्याय और न्यायिक प्रक्रिया की ईमानदारी पर सवाल खड़े हो रहे हैं। द वायर एक्सप्लेन्स के इस वीडियो में हम आपको यह पूरा मामला बताएंगे साथ ही यह भी बताएंगे कि पूर्व न्यायाधीश रंजन गोगोई ने कब कौन सा फैसला दिया, कब उनपर यौन शोषण के आरोप लगे, कब पीड़िता के सम्भावित फोन हैकिंग हुई कब वो राज्यसभा पहुंचे और क्या ये सब किसी एक कड़ी से जुड़ता है, इसके अलावा हम बात करेंगे वकील और मानवाधिकार कार्यकर्ता वृंदा ग्रोवर जी से और यह जानेंगे कि इस मामले को कैसे देखा जाना चाहिए
After Pegasus, Lawyer of Supreme Court Staffer who accused Justice of Sexual Harassment speaks out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luO-r6T-CYE
Vrinda Grover, who represented the woman staffer who had accused Justice Gogoi of sexual harassment speaks to Barkha Dutt after the Pegasus Leaks reveal that the complainant was a person of interest in the surveillance list. Justice Gogoi had denied the allegations and was given a clean chit in the case
- Pegasus International
- Insinuation about Pegasus Project Chronology 'Strains Credulity'
- If not 50,000, what about two?
- Pegasus as Diplomacy
- Chronology of Pegasus
- Targeted persons..
- Used as a Weapon in the hands of State
- Why not Investigate?
- Counter Arguments to Pegasus Project
- Insertion of malware is illegal -
- More Names in Pegasus
- New Normal ? Decoding the Scandal - Ravish Kumar
- Mojo Story on Pegasus Phone hacks
- Pegasus expose in other countries..
- Amazon shuts out NSO
- Candiru Another Mercenary Spyware
- Who is behind the phone tapping?
- INC response..
- Ravi Shankar Prasad responds..
- Whats Apps Lawsuit against NSO
- Times Now.. point by point rebuttal by NSO
- Snooping in India via Pegasus, who will act?
- Pegasus in 2018, as per Citizen Lab.
- Pegasus Explained: Wire's First stories on 18th June
- Pegasus Project: An International Collaboration