India's Prime Minister, Mohanman Singh is a venerable old man, an example of a wise, calm and moderate man, which sometimes is actually seen as a detriment to his political tenure. Indians are increasingly chafing under the mild mannered responses of their premiere, and wish he was acting more forcefully on a number of fronts.
But one thing P.M. Singh does not have to worry about, is the hacking of his personal devices: he has none.
He does not even have an email.
Scores of heads of state have been hacked, at least according to information or documents leaked by Edward Snowden. Although many of the countries in question already knew or were intensely collaborating amongst each other in the spying activity, what seems to have set off most of the foreign premieres was the fact that it was they, who had been hacked, and not just their citizens. Some others are just making a big fuss to show their citizens that they are standing up to the electronic abuse.
India, furthermore, is somewhat at the centre of the scandal, and that is because most Indians have cellular phones, not landlines, and their communications use pathways outside their countries that pass through the NSA intercepting centers.
In fact, the Indian Embassy and its UN mission office were hacked, although P.M. Singh made little of it, since in his mind, the spying activities are necessary to prevent Mumbai-like attacks in the future.
Source : France 24/ 10.25.13
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