Same comrade was about to go live in a forest

At some level, you have to accept that there's no panacea to the panopticon. At least, none at the retail level.

Ffs, flock cameras and facial recognition make even MeatSpace a shitshow of privacy violations.

Ultimately, the real defense against spying is irrelevance. 99.99% of people simply aren't interesting enough to monitor in a way that matters.

First avoid the major social apps. They are designed to give their companies access to your private information for advertising and selling, so of course these have lots of ways for nefarious attacks without user intervention since they aren't likely to spend money keeping them out. Also, wouldn't hurt to move to an OS that better isolates apps (like GrapheneOS) and avoid background services with administrative privileges like iOS or Google Services. GrapheneOS isolates Google services a bit or allows never installing them. IPhone has no real way to mitigate risk outside of the basics like encrypting your device and online data, but the admin services still have access. Not sure how easily they are hacked these days since they haven't really been promoting privacy anymore, but have also started wanting to profit from your data. Still slightly better than google, but way less control over the device which means you're at their mercy. I want even get started on Samsung administrative services...and I don't know the others well.

Which is why I run GrapheneOS.

This attack is one of the ones stopped by iOS’ lockdown mode.

There was also the same zero-click issue with WhatsApp, because people can send you a link with a link preview (which would contact the host website for data so it can appear on your phone).

WhatsApp says that it's been fixed, but I don't trust any closed source apps that says they've plugged the hole (especially Meta). More like charging entry at this point.

You do realize that spying on Americans is one of the reasons that America keeps Israel around right?

Hi, I represent a country. That's disgusting. Global surveillance of the citizenry? Ugh, these disgusting insecure private surveillance devices. I mean, there's so many of them though.. Which one? Which one is offering that service?

I think big tech helps Palantir and similars. So if a website has javascript from Google, which most websites have, then you are at risk when visiting that website. One could be hacked this way easily if the operating system is not secure

Not related to Graphite OS, Nor Graphene OS

This is it:

https://stateofsurveillance.org/news/paragon-graphite-spyware-ice-phone-hacking-2026/

I think you mean GrapheneOS, the security-hardened Android distribution. No, it is not related to the Graphite spyware, and likely reduces the user's exposure to such attacks.

what you're thinking of is grapheneOS not graphite the spyware

No it's a spyware tool called Graphite.

Probably not, see: https://alternativeto.net/news/2026/11/signal-fork-molly-goes-3-months-without-updates-leaving-users-exposed-to-vulnerabilities/

the issue is the os being insecure, not the apps

Almost certainly not

Doesn't matter because the title is clickbait. If you're owned the game is lost no matter what app/service you have on there. The title could have/should have been "If you're hacked by Graphite you're fucked no matter what"

Well I guess if the app only displays ciphertext and you have the ability to read it then I guess this might be newsworthy