Pegasus Affair

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

What Pegasus targeting heads of states shows — link with Netanyahu travels & India's Tokyo prospects  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqJabVdPaBQ  Jul 21, 2021

Shekhar Gupta highlights : the international stir Pegasus is causing with multiple Presidents, PMs, even a king targeted by Israeli, a link to Netanyahu & his foreign travels. https://youtube.com/embed/tqJabVdPaBQ?&?start=91&end=664   

Rulers, WHO chief, Telegram founder on Pegasus list https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/pegasus-10-prime-ministers-three-presidents-and-a-king-on-list-of-potential-targets/article35453643.ece  July 21, 2021  

The Israeli company issued a statement on Tuesday evening, saying “at least three names” identified by the media reports — President Macron, King Mohammed VI and the WHO director Tedros — “are not, and never have been, targets or selected as targets of NSO Group customers”.

“NSO Group will continue to investigate all credible claims of misuse and take appropriate action based on the results of these investigations,” the company said in a statement.

Where Netanyahu Went, NSO Followed: How Israel Pushed Cyberweapon Sales https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/tech-news/.premium.HIGHLIGHT-where-bibi-went-nso-followed-how-israel-pushed-cyberweapons-sales-1.10015034 
Investigation of potential Pegasus targets reveals: From Hungary to India and even Saudi Arabia, this is how Israel became the cyber industry’s patron and pushed spyware sales across the world Amitai ZivJul. 20, 2021

Amit Shah's Insinuation about Pegasus Project Chronology 'Strains Credulity' – Shashi Tharoo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUUNZVoNhyg Jul 21, 2021 

In a crisp, tightly argued and forthright interview the Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Information Technology has said former IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad's claim the Project Pegasus expose is revenge against India’s handling of Covid is “preposterous” and Home Minister Amit Shah’s insinuation that the timing of the story to coincide with the opening of the monsoon session of the Indian parliament shows it’s the work of “disrupters and instructors” simply “strains credulity”.

Case of an independent inquiry is overwhelming.. 

FT editor among 180 journalists identified by clients of spyware firm https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/18/ft-editor-roula-khalaf-among-180-journalists-targeted-nso-spyware 20 Jul 2021  

Data leak and forensics suggest NSO’s surveillance tool used against journalists at some of world’s top media companies

It is not possible to know conclusively whether phones were successfully infected with Pegasus without analysis of devices by forensic experts.

Amnesty International’s Security Lab, which can detect successful Pegasus infections, found traces of the spyware on the mobile phones of 15 journalists who had agreed to have their phones examined after discovering their number was in the leaked data.

Among the journalists confirmed by analysis to have been hacked by Pegasus were Siddharth Varadarajan and Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, a co-founder and a reporter at the Indian news website the Wire. Thakurta was hacked in 2018 while he was working on an investigation into how the Hindu nationalist government of Narendra Modi was using Facebook to systematically spread disinformation among Indian people online.