Neelam Chaudhary

Pegasus is a software (spyware/program)  produced by the Israeli surveillance firm, NSO Group Technologies, a technology cybersecurity firm . Pegasus sends a malware link to the target user and once the user clicks on it, the code that allows the surveillance is installed on the person’s phone.  According to Citizen’s Lab, once Pegasus is installed and the phone is exploited, the attacker has complete access to the target user’s phone. It then begins contacting the operator’s command and control (C&C) servers to receive and execute operators’ commands and send back the target’s private data, including passwords, contact lists, calendar events, text messages, and live voice calls from popular mobile messaging apps. The operator can even turn on the phone’s camera and microphone to capture activity in the phone’s vicinity.  The use of Pegasus’s software to spy, first emerged in 2016, when Ahmed Mansoor, a human rights activist in the UAE, was targeted with an SMS link o...

What Brains, Bits, and Quantum Physics Have in Common The laws of physics are manifested everywhere in nature.  A flowing river obeys physical laws and, in effect, solves complex fluid dynamics equations as it flows from one point to another. The laws of physics are always at work but are not being harnessed in a programmable way. A river, of course, is not considered to be a computer. “Computing comes down to different ways of processing information. The difference between digital and quantum computing is in manipulating bits versus qubits.” Three Ways Physics is Harnessed in Computation 1. HumanBrains  Computation Humans are programmable: our brains operate by harnessing biophysical processes to receive instructions, process information, and output results. The human brain is considered to be the most complex object in the universe, containing hundreds of billions of neurons, and trillions of synapses connecting the neurons.  the human brain is by far the best computer ...