There's been a lot made of The Pegasus Project - sophisticated spyware developed by some clever Israelis that can capture valuable information from someone's smartphone. It appears to have been used by all sorts of organisations, political and commercial to gain knowledge and use that info for all sorts of uses. Some commentators say it's the worst thing to have happened since the last bad thing, how it gives way too much power to those that have the data, and I can see their line of argument, but surely the issue here is our reliance on the mobile phone as our primary form of communication/information source. That in itself is not a bad thing, so it's no surprise that it's a target for unscrupulous parties to exploit it. I guess the first telegraph communications were targeted in a similar way, so we have to learn to live with it, fight it, or switch to something else. Now, where did I put that pager?
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