LET'S TALK DIGITAL HYGIENE

About ten days back, I started receiving a flurry of messages from colleagues in Sri Lanka. I am generally not in many of the messaging groups and since taking up my current research post, I have had to limit my ongoing work on Sri Lanka.

- Amantha Perera

A good friend once said, “You may leave Sri Lanka, but Sri Lanka never leaves you,” just before decamping for post graduate work.

The messages were on one thing focusing on three words the Pegasus Project. An international consortium of newspapers and digital rights bodies including the France-based Forbidden Stories, the Guardian and India’s the Wire had broken a story on the possible hacking of thousands of phones of journalists, national leaders, human rights activists and others using high-end spyware.