Weekend Reads: Stephanie Kirchgaessner tells the story of how the NSO Group, which built the controversial Pegasus spyware, became the so...
Weekend Reads:
- Stephanie Kirchgaessner tells the story of how the NSO Group, which built the controversial Pegasus spyware, became the source of a cyberweapon that could be sold to countries all over the world.
- “Democracies are, of course, not like individuals,” writes Sushant Singh, whose phone was targeted using Pegasus spyware. “When my cellphone was hacked, I could survive the ordeal to tell my story. But when a democracy is hacked, it runs the risk of dying, with no one left to tell its story. That is my fear of today’s India. That fear must not be allowed to come true.”
- “As the monsoon session runs its course, the really damaging punches to the government are likely to be made over its failures on the issues of price rise, pandemic and farmers, not the issue of surveillance,” writes Asim Ali. “Yet, it is the growing authoritarianism of the government, highlighted by the Pegasus scandal, that is at the root of what afflicts the country.”
- “After seven years of Modi, I now watch democracy die quietly in India from faraway Hong Kong, where democracy was never born but it never felt that way, and its supposed passing is widely mourned,” writes Debashish Roy Chowdhury.
- Preeti Zachariah tells the story of “the iron women of Manipur who live and...
