Mumbai: Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut on Sunday asked who funded the alleged reconnaissance of politicians and journalists with Pegasus and compare it with the bombing of Hiroshima, saying while the attack on the city of Japan has resulted in the death of people, spies by Israeli software.
cause “freedom death”.
“Modern technology has brought us back to slavery,” said Raut in his weekly column ‘Rokthok’ in Saamana Circle Saamana.
He said the Pegasus case was “no different from the atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima”.
“People died in Hiroshima, while in the case of Pegasus, it caused death of freedom,” he said.
He said politicians, industrialists and social activists were worried they were being spied on, and even justice and the media were under the same pressure.
“The atmosphere of freedom in the National Capital ended a few years ago,” said Raut, which is the executive editor of Saamana.
He also tried to find out who was paying for alleged lodging by spyware Israel.
Citing media reports, he said the Israeli company NSO imposes RS 60 Crore every year as a license (cost) for Pegasus software.
By means of a license, 50 phones can be hacked.
Therefore, to knock on 300 cellphones, six to seven licenses, said Rajya Sabha said.
“Is there so much money spent? Who is paying for it? NSO said it would sell the software only for the government.
If so, which government in India buys software? Rs 300 Crore is spent on spying 300 people in India.
Does our country have The capacity to spend so much money to spy on? “Raut asked.
He also said the BJP leader (and former IT Union Minister) Ravishankar Prasad has confirmed spying by saying that 45 countries in the world use Pegasus.
Raut, who feared sharing power with NCP and Congress in Maharashtra, claimed that journalists who criticized the Modi government were the target of reconnaissance.
A recent international media consortium reported that several cell phone numbers were verified, including several ministers, journalists, opposition leaders, and a number of people and activists in India could be targeted to hack using pegasus / spyware software.
The government has rejected the allegations of all types of supervision in its parts in certain people, said it “does not have a concrete base or truth associated with it”