Tribune. The revelations of the performance of the Pegasus spyware challenge citizens of the world as much as states. Electronic communications and data processing have become the obligatory passage of our relationships, family, sentimental, friendship, professional, trade union, political, associative. No one escapes it. The possibility offered by this extraordinary intruder to access it without being spotted is truly terrifying.
Friends of Israel are confused by the announcement that the company that has developed this software and especially markets it is installed in this country, because it is more than obvious that it cannot have designed and brought to the market such a tool without the endorsement and control of the leaders of his state. While everyone can and must take into account Israel’s primary concern to ensure its security, that is to say its survival, its senior officials must bear in mind that at the origin of the Holocaust were men and regimes that denied basic rights.
$ 25,000
Today as yesterday, the essential danger comes from this same horizon where religious and secular extremisms and their pale illiberal copies reject and fight these same rights.
However, this same State authorizes the delivery of this weapon of mass destruction of human rights and their defenders to regimes which use it to silence through prison, torture or death these women and men who fight for respect for the rights of their people. The only criterion of choice seems to be their strategic proximity to Israel, with the fight against terrorism as an alibi, which has become Noah’s veil of all despotisms.
Its cost, estimated at around 25,000 dollars (around 21,100 euros) per target, as well as its conditions of use essentially put it within the reach of States, large companies, even criminal organizations, in short of all those who constitute , because of their very power, a danger to citizens. Let us not doubt that this brilliant invention will make school and that will quickly develop similar products whose price will become more and more affordable, allowing its proliferation.
How to defend oneself against such a danger?
Seize the United Nations Security Council
Through initiatives at two levels, that of States and that of citizens of the world and their organizations.
Let us not doubt that similar products will develop rapidly, the price of which will become more and more affordable, allowing its proliferation.
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