Anivar Aravind @[email protected]

RT @asdofindia
Without FOSS there is no democracy, but FOSS doesn't make democracy.

FOSS doesn't make a software good or bad. FOSS makes good software better. But FOSS doesn't make bad software good.

Bad software is bad software whether FOSS or not. https://twitter.com/sunil_abraham/status/1420629001459044358

RT @mruef
Full phone number database of #Clubhouse is up for sale on the #Darknet. It contains 3.8 billion phone numbers. These are not just members but also people in contact lists that were synced. Chances are high that you are listed even if you haven't had a Clubhouse login.

RT @iam_anandv
I wrote an analysis on the Arsenal and Pegasus reports on the Bhima Koregaon case and explain why the case has completely collapsed as of today.

I also have found indicators on who has done the planting.

https://www.thequint.com/voices/opinion/after-pegasus-and-arsenal-reports-can-bhima-koregaon-case-still-stand

RT @Snowden
The NSO Group is running a disinformation campaign to undermine the Pegasus Project—because of course they are—but @amnesty just demolished it: https://twitter.com/AmnestyTech/status/1418140213428301824

RT @Kum_Sambhav
8. We also found earlier, through RTI documents, that the govt had installed a "strategic" tool that mass snoops on citizens' social media activities from 61 locations across the country. It was in the process of installing the tool at 59 more locations. https://www.business-standard.com/article/economy-policy/from-new-delhi-to-patna-govt-is-watching-your-social-media-from-61-places-118122700271_1.html

RT @Kum_Sambhav
7. And mind you, a 360º data-system of granular profiles of all residents is not a pipe dream in India anymore. I saw it functioning in the state of Telangana, shredding privacy of its 30 million residents. Here is the scary picture I saw. Read in Part 3 https://www.reporters-collective.in/projects/surveillance-nation-how-every-indian-is-under-government-watch

RT @Kum_Sambhav
6. The top govt bureaucrat who originally planned this project now fears it would "hasten India’s tilt towards a police state" Files notings show he had warned during the project's development but the warnings were ignored. In part 2 of the series https://www.reporters-collective.in/projects/surveillance-nation-how-every-indian-is-under-government-watch

RT @Kum_Sambhav
4. But in reality the govt is building an all-encompassing, auto-updating, searchable database that integrates religion, caste, income, property, employment, disability, family-tree and geo tagged data of homes of every Indian. Read about it in 6 languages https://www.reporters-collective.in/projects/surveillance-nation-how-every-indian-is-under-government-watch

RT @VakashaS
Even in Viktor Orban's Hungary, allegations of government snooping via #PegasusProject are being investigated. While our government whines about international conspiracies. https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1418233624495890435

RT @gopalears
പെഗാസസ് : നാമറിയാതെ നമ്മെ തട്ടിക്കൊണ്ടുപോകുന്ന ലോകാധികാരികൾ
ചർച്ചയിൽ പങ്കെടുക്കുന്നത് .
Public Interest Technologist അനിവർ അരവിന്ദ് , പ്രവീൺ. എ , പ്രശാന്ത് സുഗതൻ , ഹൃഷികേഷ് ഭാസ്കരൻ
@_stultus
@anivar
@PrasanthTweets
ആഴമുള്ള ഈ സംവാദത്തിലേക്ക് സ്വാഗതം .

https://youtu.be/6RYPJLqP3kk

RT @logic
Systemically large SDK providers need to have higher bar in security - especially after there was at least one incident of them getting hacked. A particular SDK is used ~1000 highly used apps - covering easily 75-80% of smartphone base of India. cc @iam_anandv

RT @PhineasJFR
Overnight, reports began circulating in Israeli media attempting to discredit #PegasusProject by twisting the words of an @amnesty statement.

The twisted version caught fire online and is now being parroted by Indian politicians.

A small #thread on #misinformation:

1/10

RT @rohini_sgh
Big story by @svaradarajan and @AjoyAshirwad. Hours after CBI’s midnight coup, the then CBI director Alok Verma and his deputy Rakesh Asthana were placed on the Pegasus target list. #PegasusSnoopingScandal

https://thewire.in/government/pegasus-project-chronology-samajhiye-hours-after-midnight-coup-cbi-chiefs-phones-entered-surveillance-zone

RT @gopalears
coming soon on Dilli Dali
@anivar @_stultus @PrasanthTweets

RT @pranesh
In today's Hindu, I argue that we need to professionalize intelligence gathering, bringing intelligence agencies under parliamentary oversight, making them non-partisan, and ensuring that civil liberties and rule of law are protected.

#PegasusProject

https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/pegasus-is-indias-watergate-moment/article35434074.ece?homepage=true