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In today’s featured cartoon, Pen Pencil Draw draws on claims by some Opposition MPs and journalists who said they received a notification on their iPhones warning them that ‘state-sponsored attackers’ were trying to hack the device.
Satish Acharya too refers to the iPhone hacking controversy, using metaphors to depict the ‘Apple’ devices that were hacked, as well as allegations of snooping levelled against the government by Opposition leaders, including Congress MP Rahul Gandhi.
Sajith Kumar alludes to the government’s response to the iPhone hacking controversy by playing on the charge by Opposition leaders that the ruling dispensation ‘is too arrogant to listen’ to their concerns or suggestions.
R. Prasad gives his take on the Attorney-General’s submission before the Supreme Court that citizens do not have the ‘right to know’ the source of political funding.