“But here’s who’s on the list: Three sitting presidents, France’s Emmanuel Macron, Iraq’s Barham Salih and South Africa’s Cyril Ramaphosa.<p>Three current prime ministers, Pakistan’s Imran Khan, Egypt’s Mostafa Madbouly and Morocco’s Saad-Eddine El Othmani.<p>Seven former prime ministers, who according to time stamps on the list were placed there while they were still in office: Yemen’s Ahmed Obeid bin Daghr, Lebanon’s Saad Hariri, Uganda’s Ruhakana Rugunda, France’s Édouard Philippe, Kazakhstan’s Bakitzhan Sagintayev, Algeria’s Noureddine Bedoui and Belgium’s Charles Michel.<p>And one king: Morocco’s Mohammed VI.”
I can understand governments spying on each other. Here I understand though that it's (also?) governments spying on opposition, parties spying on each other, and probably many private entities (mob?) spying on whoever they see fit.
Did anyone else find the writing style confusing, in that it wasn't clear if the listed people had installed Pegasus to use it on others, rather than finding it installed on their cell phones to spy on them?
Finally in the last part of the article, one can infer the obvious (and expected) assumption. For example Macron has secure phones for official secure conversations, but his personal iPhone has been hacked, and Pegasus has been installed, to spy on him. (Not for him.)
Would be great to have this HaveIBeenPwed type service for this list. I've heard this list of numbers is floating around somewhere... does anyone have a source?