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Emmanuel Macron may have been targeted by Pegasus spyware but its very existence serves as a warning to the rest of us
FRANCE - The President and Pegasus
TO begin with let’s put this in context. If the French president is vulnerable to mobile phone spyware, then are any of us safe? The obvious answer is no and frankly on a wider scale neither is democracy itself. That’s not to say that Emmanuel Macron’s phone has yet been confirmed as compromised. That much the French government were at pain to stress on Friday pending a full investigation into how the president’s number, along with those of some government colleagues, were included on the list of 50,000 phone numbers offered by Israeli cyber intelligence firm NSO Group to its customers
David Pratt s Four Corners: Our Foreign Affairs writer gives expert analysis and insight on France, Australia, Tunisia and Peru
David Pratt s Four Corners: Our Foreign Affairs writer gives expert analysis and insight on France, Australia, Tunisia and Peru
France: Pegasus and the president To begin with let’s put this in context. If the French president is vulnerable to mobile phone spyware, then are any of us safe? The obvious answer is no and frankly on a wider scale neither is democracy itself. That’s not to say that Emmanuel Macron’s phone has yet been confirmed as compromised. That much the French government were at pain to stress on Friday pending a full investigation into how the president’s number, along with those of some government colleagues, were included on the list of 50,000 phone numbers offered by Israeli cyber intelligence firm NSO Group to its customers