Pegasus arrives in Spain; attack catalans


Pegasus has become synonymous with the violation of privacy and intimacy rights.

It is also synonymous with authoritarianism when there are no court orders for the use of spyware.

Pegasus is cowardice.

Citizen Lab, made up of a group of cybersecurity experts from the University of Toronto, has found traces of espionage on the phones of more than 60 Catalan politicians linked to independence, between 2019 and 2020.

The espionage strategy was so well planned and directed that one of the spies had his phone infected through an SMS with the boarding pass for a real flight, a ticket that a politician had bought.

The Spanish official who used the Pegasus system (the Israeli company that manufactures it only sells it to government entities) to send the false link to the Catalan politician’s phone had to have had access to the database of the airline chosen by this .

Another of the spies was introduced to the Pegasus system by sending him a message on behalf of the Mercantile Registry of Barcelona with real information about his company. And to many others they sneaked the software by sending them supposed organic news about the independence movement as bait.

The National Intelligence Center (CNI) of Spain bought the Pegasus espionage software during the government of Mariano Rajoy, but in 2019 Pedro Sánchez was already governing.

Pere Aragonès, regional president of Catalonia commented yesterday that he does not believe that the Sánchez government gave any order to spy on Catalan politicians, but another thing is the structures that move under the Government: the famous sewers of the State.

“What State could be interested in spying on more than 60 people linked to the Government of Catalonia, the Parliament of Catalonia, the independence movement in general? This points to Spain”, Aragonès commented yesterday to Cadena SER.

It is a monumental democratic scandal, however, a sector of Spanish politicians and media have decided to disdain the case because they are pro-independence politicians.

One of them is the writer Arturo Pérez-Reverte. On Twitter he wrote: “Catalan secessionists, outraged that the Spanish state spied on the Catalan secessionists. And in addition, they want the Spanish State to confirm it officially and tell it in detail. Spain is the craziest place in Europe.”

It seems that the famous writer does not know the foundations of liberal democracy.

If the Aragonès party, Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya (ERC), withdraws its support from the Sánchez government, there will be general elections tomorrow. It will not.

Big Brother has playful features, like everything that happens on cell phones.

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Fausto Pretelin Munoz de Cote

Consultant, academic, editor

Globali… what?

He was a research professor in the Department of International Studies at ITAM, published the book Referendum Twitter and was an editor and collaborator in various newspapers such as 24 Horas, El Universal, Milenio. He has published in magazines such as Foreign Affairs, Le Monde Diplomatique, Life & Style, Chilango and Revuelta. He is currently an editor and columnist at El Economista.



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