Pegasus Spying Episode

Yesterday the opposition parties rocked parliament on Pegasus spying issue. We need to understand some of the facts.

1.      Every sovereign country has some surveillance system or other. They will use it for internal and external security of their country. Nana Patole recently said that his own govt is monitoring his movement.

2.      Pegasus is ethical spyware and designated as weapon system. Its sale is controlled by Israeli government. It is not very clear whether Government of India has bought it or not.  

3.     Let's assume India has it. India’s responsible investigation agency must be owning it. It is impossible to know that on whom government is using it. Even Israeli government and Pegasus will not share this information. Therefore, I can’t believe Amnesty international and wire can have such information.  

4.       Understand who is sharing this information.  Amnesty International who has been expelled from India for antinational activities. The wire is known leftist propaganda website.  Most of the other actors of this leak are those people who have played active role in destabilizing Syria, Libya, Egypt, Yemen etc.

5.       They very well know that the names shared by them can’t be validated. They also know that Government of India will not say Yes or No on those names.

6.       What opposition parties want is to share classified information which no govt will share. They are colluding with breaking India forces and creating this drama.

7.       My strong belief is that nothing is private nowadays in cyberspace. We don't know so many spyware may be sitting on our own mobile. We don't know who is observing us. They can be state actors or rogue elements. When you install any mobile apps, most of the apps asks complete access to your mobile including photos, contacts, SMS, location, and email. Many of us will give complete access blindly.

You should not have any doubt that the state is observing you. Remember Kapil Sibbal forced all social media companies to give the feed to India when he was IT minister. Indian Government has all the information what you put into WhatsApp, Twitter, Facebook, and email. Just hold on! Not only Indian government is collecting such data, bid daddy USA is also collecting such data for entire world. I had written earlier on this. All these social media giants are giving feed to US government. US’s NSA has set up huge facility in Utah to collect this information. It is in public domain. Please read my blog (https://smgundawar.blogspot.com/2014/02/privacy-is-my-right.html)

Satish Gundawar

20-Jul-21