alecmAmazing: today we have at least two stories — one old, one new — about Governments wanting to suppress public discussion of attempted surveillance
The first is about Margaret Thatcher and the Peter Wright / “Spycatcher” affair; the second is from India re: the Government being angry at Apple for being frank with people about apparent attempts of the Indian state to hack into activist iPhones.
“The Spycatcher scandal contributed more than anything to bring the spies out of the cold,” according to the specialist historian Calder Walton. “It laid bare how incompatible it was to have intelligence services operating in a secret constitutional never-never land and allowed them to become publicly accountable.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-67835095
Senior Modi administration officials called Apple India’s managing director, Virat Bhatia, after the news broke, said two people with knowledge of the matter. One of the people said Indian officials asked Apple to withdraw the warnings and say it had made a mistake. After a heated discussion, the company’s India office said the most it could do was put out a public statement that emphasized certain caveats that Apple had already listed on its tech support page about the warnings.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/12/27/india-apple-iphone-hacking/ (Archived)
#apple #india #margaretThatcher #narendraModi #peterWright #surveillance
