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game continues
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governmental institution.
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“The fact that the
government is using high-tech surveillance against human rights defenders and
journalists exposing corruption, instead of those responsible for those abuses,
says a lot about who the government works for,” said Luis Fernando García, the
executive director of R3D, a digital rights group in Mexico that has
helped identify multiple abuses of Pegasus in Mexico. “It’s definitely not for
the people.”
Mourners at the funeral of Javier Valdez, an
award-winning journalist based in the drug-infested state of Sinaloa. He was shot and killed in May. Mexico is among the world’s most dangerous
places for journalists. Credit...Rashide Frias/Associated Pres
Supporters protested the firing of Carmen Aristegui in 2015. She was dismissed following a report on a sweetheart real estate deal involving Mexico’s First Lady. The sign at center says: “To listen to Aristegui is an act of rebellion and of hope. Out with Peña. “Credit...Edgard Garrido/Reuters
By Azam
Ahmed and Nicole Perlroth
- June
19, 2017
MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s most prominent
human rights lawyers, journalists and anti-corruption activists have been
targeted by advanced spyware sold to the Mexican government on the
condition that it be used only to investigate criminals and terrorists.
The targets include lawyers looking
into the mass disappearance
of 43 students, a highly respected academic who helped write
anti-corruption legislation, two of Mexico’s most influential journalists and
an American representing victims of sexual abuse by the police. The spying even
swept up family members, including a teenage boy.
Since 2011, at least three Mexican
federal agencies have purchased about $80 million worth of spyware created by
an Israeli cyberarms manufacturer. The
software, known as Pegasus, infiltrates smartphones to monitor every detail of
a person’s cellular life — calls, texts, email, contacts, and calendars. It can even use the microphone and camera on
phones for surveillance, turning a target’s smartphone into a personal bug.
The company that
makes the software, the NSO Group, says it sells the tool exclusively to
governments, with an explicit agreement that it be used only to battle
terrorists or the drug cartels and criminal groups that have long kidnapped and
killed Mexicans.
But according to dozens of messages
examined by The New York Times and independent forensic analysts, the software
has been used against some of the government’s most outspoken critics and their
families, in what many view as an unprecedented effort to thwart the fight
against the corruption infecting every limb of Mexican society.
“…to be used against (sub-intro from
the author).”
…from NYTs.
…from
author:
“Mexico
Government bought a soft from a private company in Israel (NSO), controlled by Israel
Government, the right to use a very advanced soft (software), ‘Pegasus’ but
used it against its own people: News broadcasters, lawyers, young citizens. Anyone who attacked the government
involvement in drugs, rapes and false arrest in order to intimidate those that
apposed dealings with drug internal sale and exporting it to other nations.”
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Pegasus is spyware developed by the Israeli cyberarms firm NSO Group that can be covertly installed
on mobile phones (and
other devices) running most[1] versions of iOS and Android.[2] The 2021 Project Pegasus
revelations suggest that the current Pegasus software can
exploit all recent iOS versions up to iOS 14.6.[1] As of 2016, Pegasus was
capable of reading text messages, tracking calls, collecting passwords, location tracking,
accessing the target device's microphone and camera, and harvesting information
from apps.[3] The spyware is named
after Pegasus, the winged horse of Greek mythology. It is a Trojan horse computer
virus that can be sent "flying through the air" to infect cell phones.[4]
NSO Group was previously owned by American private equity
firm Francisco Partners,[5] but it was bought back by
its founders in 2019.[6] The company states that it
provides "authorized governments with technology that helps them combat
terror and crime."[7][8] NSO Group has published
sections of contracts which require customers to use its products only for
criminal and national security investigations and has stated that it has an
industry-leading approach to human rights.[9] “
“…to be used against (sub-intro from
the author).”
to be used against criminals, traffickers of drug, terrorist
just to combat those individuals’ creating terror in the Mexican population but
instead, they, the Mexican Government, used it to attack and destroy those people
that were combating those crimes: criminals, traffickers of drug, terrorist,
and others, this is, journalist, young people protesting against the Mexican
Government abusers that were part of the center of the Mexican Government such
as: Peña Nieto
Continue from NYTs
…But by 2014, much of the early
promise of the Peña Nieto administration was dashed by the crises subsuming it,
including the mysterious disappearance of 43 teaching students after a clash
with the police, and accusations that the president and his wife got a special
deal on a multimillion-dollar home from a government contractor.
“…from the
author:
Mexico bought the rights to use Pegasus from abroad (Israel)
and promised and signed it would be used to fight crimes against the people of this
Latin country, instead of that, it used it to protect the government against
any civilian protesting and championing against crimes committed against Mexico
society. It is not that the many governments
of Mexico are corrupted institutions; it is that criminals are the main
ingredients of most of Mexican Governments.”
The Mexico example revealed
both the promise and the perils of working with NSO. In 2017, researchers at Citizen Lab, a
watchdog group based at the University of Toronto, reported that authorities in
Mexico had used Pegasus to hack the accounts of advocates for a soda tax, as part of a broader campaign aimed at
human rights activists, political opposition movements and journalists. More disturbing, someone in the government had
used Pegasus to spy on lawyers working to untangle the massacre of 43 students
in Iguala in 2014. Tomás Zerón de Lucio,
the chief of the Mexican equivalent to the F.B.I., was a main author of the
federal government’s version of the event, which concluded that the students
were killed by a local gang. But in 2016
he became the subject of an investigation himself, on suspicion that he had
covered up federal involvement in the events there. Now he might have used Pegasus in that effort
— one of his official duties was to sign off on the procurement of cyberweapons
and other equipment. In March 2019, soon
after Andrés Manuel López Obrador replaced Peña Nieto after a landslide election,
investigators charged that Zerón had engaged in torture, abduction and
tampering with evidence in relation to the Iguala massacre. Zerón fled to Canada
and then to Israel, where he entered the country as a tourist, and where —
despite an extradition request from Mexico, which is now seeking him on
additional charges of embezzlement — he remains today
“…from the author.
…as you could notice, the
NYTs had published a throw full analysis that make to most readers conclude,
that many of Mexican Governments are leaders in drug trafficking not only
inside this country, but around all of Latin America including other nations in
the European Union …from trading with drugs nationally and internationally, to President
of the Mexican people. So, they turn into
protectors of other drug traffickers until they retire from the elected
position. Just drug traffickers.
On Israel: Israel had been cheated
by some international governments, making them believe that these foreign
nations want to purchase the right to use sophisticated soft, to fight crime in
their nation, instead, they are the real criminals. It is the same as when someone goes and buy
a hunting powerful rifle, instead, goes to a high school and kill some innocent
student bringing sorrow to their families and the nation. Countries, not only Mexico, had done that
such as Arab Nations and a lot of others …and the game continues.”
…from NYTs
People mourning Alexander Mora, one of 43 teaching students who vanished in 2014 after a clash with the police in Guerrero State. Lawyers looking into the students’ disappearance have been targeted by spyware. Credit...Adriana Zehbrauskas for The New York Times
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