The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Friday May 20th, 2022 – World Bee Day
World Bee Day is celebrated on May 20. On this day Anton Janša, the pioneer of beekeeping, was born in 1734. The purpose of the international day is to acknowledge the role of bees and other pollinators for the ecosystem.
Rogues and Spyware: Pegasus Strikes in Spain by Dr. Binoy Kampmark
Weapons, lacking sentience and moral orientation, are there to be used by all. Once out, these creations can never be rebottled. Effective spyware, that most malicious of surveillance tools, is one such creation, available to entities and governments of all stripes. The targets are standard: dissidents, journalists, legislators, activists, even the odd jurist.
Pegasus spyware, the fiendishly effective creation of Israel’s unscrupulous NSO Group, has become something of a regular in the news cycles on cyber security. Created in 2010, it was the brainchild of three engineers who had cut their teeth working for the cyber outfit Unit 8200 of the Israeli Defence Forces: Niv Carmi, Shalev Hulio and Omri Lavie.
NSO found itself at the vanguard of an Israeli charm offensive, regularly hosting officials from Mossad at its headquarters in Herzliya in the company of delegations from African and Arab countries. Cyber capabilities would be one way of getting into their good books.
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Yuna:wikko’o #poem & #painting by Virginia Maria Romero
“Wolf song,
a primal chorus that I dance to
as the fullness of my heart empties
into dreams that come with the sun’s last breath
before buried beneath purple mountains.”
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“Your three oldest children, who do you love the most?”. ISD threatened my children – by Zulfikar Shariff
The next morning, I was woken up by food delivered for the pre-dawn Ramadhan breakfast.
I kept waking up the whole night. Sleeping on the floor in a tiny cell was not easy. I felt as if my whole world was that cell. There was nothing else outside.
Near the bottom of the metal door was a small door that could only be opened from the outside. I crawled to the opening and took the food. After I finished eating, the sentry knocked on the door and told me to stop eating. That would be a few minutes before the dawn prayer time.
After I prayed, I went back to sleep.
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Fika bonding! #033 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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