The snooping on the WhatsApp messages of journalists, lawyers and activists in India with the Israeli spyware, Pegasus, can indicate one of two things — either the current dispensation is hand-in-glove with the spying or it is incapable of protecting the privacy of its citizens. The Opposition should take up this issue seriously in the upcoming winter session of Parliament. Alarmingly, there is no clarity on how many people have actually been targeted.
it is true that it is very, very hard to protect yourself against a hack like this. Perhaps not with Pegasus, which has probably run aground, but other hacks of this kind will most likely occur again.But that does not mean you should give up on either communicating, or on communicating securely.
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