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Think you are safe from Paul Kagame’s spies? Think again.
No one is safe from spyware such as Pegasus
Carine Kanimba, Paul Rusesabagina, testified yesterday before the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence about her experience being spied on. Rwandan President Paul Kagame used Pegasus software to listen in to her most intimate phone calls. These included calls with U.S. Congressional offices, her lawyers, her family, and her friends.
Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) said this in his opening remarks:
Public reports have shined a bright light on the robust market for powerful spying tools that are sold on the open market. The most sophisticated of these tools provide “zero click” access to all the information stored on a mobile phone, laptop, or other internet-connected device. E-mails, photographs, messages sent via encrypted apps, even the microphone on a device — literally nothing is out of reach.
This spyware could be used against every Member of this committee, every employee of the executive branch, every journalist or political activist. And aside from periodically updating the software on our devices, there’s little you can currently do to protect yourself from being targeted and compromised.
In 2021, a group of news organizations and researchers, acting under…