NEW DELHI: BJP on Tuesday rejected several opposition leaders’ allegations against the government following Apple’s alert warning of “state-sponsored attackers trying to remotely compromise” their iPhones, and said it is for the mobile company to explain the issue.
Senior BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad slammed the opposition for targeting the government without taking up the matter with Apple Inc and dared its leaders, who have received it, to file a criminal case.Asked about the opposition leaders’ charge, Prasad shot back, “It is for Apple to clarify. They should file an FIR if they have any problems. Who is stopping them?”
He recalled the controversy over the alleged use of Pegasus malware to hack into the phones of certain people, including opposition leaders, and said Rahul had refused to deposit his iPhone before a committee appointed by the Supreme Court to look into the matter.
BJP IT department head Amit Malviya noted that Apple issued a statement within minutes of Rahul making a complete joke of himself.
“What is it that drives him to champion foreign agencies’ sponsored stories? Soros? Last time too, he didn’t submit his phone for investigation. Why waste national time by making frivolous allegations,” he said.
“Life of an ‘issueless’ Opposition in India: wake up and outrage over something frivolous, roll in Rahul and assorted voices in the ranks to wail, only to find that the issue is dead by noon,” he said.
After some of the most vocal critics of the government said they received warnings that attempts have been made by state-sponsored attackers to steal information from their iPhones, its manufacturer Apple Inc in a statement said it is possible that some threat notifications may be false alarms and some attacks may not be detected.
Amid the row, IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said the government had ordered a probe into the matter. “In light of such information and widespread speculation, we have also asked Apple to join the investigation with real, accurate information on the alleged state-sponsored attacks,” he added.
Senior BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad slammed the opposition for targeting the government without taking up the matter with Apple Inc and dared its leaders, who have received it, to file a criminal case.Asked about the opposition leaders’ charge, Prasad shot back, “It is for Apple to clarify. They should file an FIR if they have any problems. Who is stopping them?”
He recalled the controversy over the alleged use of Pegasus malware to hack into the phones of certain people, including opposition leaders, and said Rahul had refused to deposit his iPhone before a committee appointed by the Supreme Court to look into the matter.
BJP IT department head Amit Malviya noted that Apple issued a statement within minutes of Rahul making a complete joke of himself.
“What is it that drives him to champion foreign agencies’ sponsored stories? Soros? Last time too, he didn’t submit his phone for investigation. Why waste national time by making frivolous allegations,” he said.
“Life of an ‘issueless’ Opposition in India: wake up and outrage over something frivolous, roll in Rahul and assorted voices in the ranks to wail, only to find that the issue is dead by noon,” he said.
After some of the most vocal critics of the government said they received warnings that attempts have been made by state-sponsored attackers to steal information from their iPhones, its manufacturer Apple Inc in a statement said it is possible that some threat notifications may be false alarms and some attacks may not be detected.
Amid the row, IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said the government had ordered a probe into the matter. “In light of such information and widespread speculation, we have also asked Apple to join the investigation with real, accurate information on the alleged state-sponsored attacks,” he added.
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