TOM EATON | It’s a spooky business, but not if it involves our ‘agents’

If Rwanda did spy on Cyril Ramaphosa it’s sure to have done a better job than our spies do and we need to know why

21 July 2021 - 19:37 By tom eaton

If a report by The Guardian is true and the Rwandan government signed up to an Israeli spyware service so it could rummage through Cyril Ramaphosa’s phone, I hope they got a fat discount. After all, if you want to get your hands on the president’s digital goodies, you don’t need to pay Israeli hackers: you just need to pick up his iPad from where he’s left it on the loo, type in the code — “JesusTakeTheWheel” — and voila...

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