In the first part of a series analysing the legal questions surrounding the Pegasus Project revelations, NIPUN SAXENA examines Pegasus developer NSO Group’s contractual policy regarding the spyware to uncover some complex constitutional questions, and asks: can the right to carry out surveillance, which is otherwise permissible in only exceptional circumstances, the sovereign right of the State and permissible only in exceptional circumstances, be contractually performed by a private foreign entity?
GREEK mythologies have an unusual flair for being strikingly prescient. The story of the mythical omnipotent winged horse Pegasus is no exception.
According to Greek myths, Pegasus was in service of Zeus, albeit briefly. Bellerophon, an ambitious man who would harness the powers of Pegasus through a bridle given to him by Athena herself, turned too ambitious for his own good and attempted to ascend to the heavens on the horseback of Pegasus. This greatly angered Zeus, which led to Bellerophon being unsaddled and suffer a fateful fall from the sky, permanently maiming him.
This mythical story came true almost a millennia after the modern-day Pegasus has been the cause of a possible unsaddling of various countries, which at various points of times
— source theleaflet.in | Nipun Saxena | 20 Jul 2021