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Situation.— are the worst things in the situation. ., ,, , ., , . an investigative group in canada says both downing street and foreign office computer systems were infected with spyware. it says it informed officials that so—called pegasus software, which is used by governments to carry out espionage on people's phones, was discovered on the systems but it is not clear what data might have been taken. joining me now is our security correspondent, gordon corera for people not familiar with the pegasus spyware, talk us through more of that and also what was found. ., , , , more of that and ...

Has the resources and the where with all to crack into what you're doing if you're that journalist under a repressive regime, there is no guarantee. for most people, if you're looking at a fear of most of these technologies, including pegasus according to the leadership and engineers, you can just power off your phone. most of the tech in this space doesn't have persistence. it can't survive a reboot. that was one of the first recommendations given to me. >> turn off the phone is also probably good for your mental health. this is scary when we have journalists who have been killed with some of...

Absolutely zero, it is not going to happen. as well as that, a senior source told the bbc... and as all sides traded political blows this week, there was a new arrival in westminister. last year, the conservative mp david amess was stabbed to death during a constituency surgery. now anna firth has been sworn in as his replacement. and while parliament welcomes its newest member, there are sharp differences over where the limits of reasonable political discourse lie. let's turn to israel now and the fallout from the news that police used spyware to gather information on prominent invividuals. t...

To believe they were surveilled and convincing them to agree to do a forensic investigation into the device and then we were able to find some traces a lot of times. paul, amnesty international did play this crucial role in analysing some of the actual phones that you obtained from people on the list. as i understand it, they were able to detect traces of the pegasus software on 37 phones and you got hold of 67 to test, which is quite a high hit rate. i wonder paul, though, amnesty is a campaigning charity. it is rather unusual, isn't it, for a journalist to be outsourcing this forensic work t...

It will turn your phone into a spy in your pocket and then the pegasus software will take the entire control of your device, which means they will know everything you're doing with your device, who you are talking to, they will know the messages that you are sending, even if they are encrypted, they can activate the camera, they can know basically everything and then the pegasus software will transfer the secrets, your secrets, your data, to the person that is tracking you, to the government that is tracking you, so this is considered as a weapon by the israeli defence minister. you need a lic...