Poland's Pegasus Surveillance Scandal

So there's a scandal unfolding in Poland right now, and that is the use of

Pegasus, a powerful surveillance software developed

by an

Israeli company called NSO Group.

It's sold to governments and intelligence agencies around the

world.

It can read text messages, it can read encrypted

communications on apps like WhatsApp and Signal.

It has access to your photos, your emails, track your

location. It can even activate a phone's microphone

and camera, and all

of this is done without you even clicking a link.

It can only be distributed and sold to places the Israeli government,

uh, gives approval of. Now, Donald Tusk, the Prime Minister of Poland, launched an

investigation when he came into power on the use of Pegasus.

What they discovered was that the political opposition, which

was in power

before Donald Tusk, actually did deploy Pegasus,

the Israeli spyware

software, on its political opponents.

I mean, is Pegasus being used here in the United

States?

The FBI purchased Pegasus in 2019.

They claim just to evaluate it. Who believes that, by the way?

It says it never deployed it operationally. Who believes that?

If you had a weapon this powerful in your toolkit, if you had

access to a weapon that powerful, you think you're just gonna sit on it?

One should not think that just because an Israeli company

developed this software,

it doesn't mean, it doesn't follow that then the Israeli government would

have

access to the information. Well, of course it does.

But then the question is, how do we even stop something like this?

I mean, if this stuff is in existence, what's to stop them from using it against

you, an American citizen? So this is a very scary story coming out of

Poland. I mean, this isn't just about Poland

and what happened with the political

opposition. This is something that's happening to us

all, and I think we should be

very aware of it and keep our eyes wide open and ask a lot of questions.