Pegasus: There has been a lot of controversy regarding Pegasus in India. According to reports, now the government is preparing to buy a new spyware. This software will be less popular spyware than Israeli spyware. Let’s see which software are in contention.
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Pegasus Spyware India: Indian government is planning to buy a new spyware. The government has replaced the controversial Pegasus software that created turmoil in the country’s politics. Software wants to buy. Recently, information has come out in a report that the central government is going to buy spyware to be used for espionage. A budget of $120 million (about Rs 985 crore) has also been kept for this.
According to the report of the Financial Times, the central government wants to buy lesser known spyware from Pegasus. Let us tell you that due to Pegasus many questions have been raised on the central government. Now it has to be seen which software the Government of India can buy instead of Pegasus.
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What happens with spyware like Pegasus?
First of all, let us tell you that spyware is such a software, which keeps an eye on certain people. Their devices, phones etc. are spied on. According to media reports, last year the central government was accused of using Pegasus software of Israeli company NSO Group for espionage. It was alleged that some politicians, human rights activists and journalists were spied on by this software.
Talk about spyware progressed
However, the central government had termed all these allegations as baseless. The Defense Ministry also said that it has nothing to do with the Israel-based NSO group. According to the FT report, the talks regarding the new software have progressed a lot. It has been revealed in this report that Indian officials have shown interest in some competitor software of Pegasus.
These software are included in the race
These include the Predator spyware system developed by Greece-based Intellexa. To make it, the help of former officers of the Israeli Army has also been taken. Apart from this, software like Quadream and Cognyte are also involved in this race.
According to Citizen Lab, Predator is already being used in countries like Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Madagascar and Oman. There have been reports of approval of Quadrim in Saudi Arabia after the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
These spyware are so powerful that they can even hack WhatsApp messages etc. Explain that WhatsApp and Signal use end-to-end encryption model, which gives strong privacy to the users. But spyware like Pegasus can make a dent in this system too.
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