If you’re in a sensitive position; should you restore your phone on a regular basis?
Serious malware puts itself places where “factory reset” doesn’t go.
You should have your phone put through a shredder (shards carefully recycled, of course) and the new one built from a known supply chain, with software installed from freshly compiled source code with nicely randomized code and data layouts and using at least 2 different sets of compiler tool chains.
There is no real reason this isn’t feasible. I’ve seen this exact level of security in practice for other computers at places which care enough.
Interior minister Ernst Hirsch Ballin warned Wilders in a letter that the AIVD suspected Markuszower of passing information to a “foreign power” – thought to be Israel, where he was born.
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-covid-propaganda/
At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. military launched a secret campaign to counter what it perceived as China’s growing influence in the Philippines, a nation hit especially hard by the deadly virus.
The clandestine operation has not been previously reported. It aimed to sow doubt about the safety and efficacy of vaccines and other life-saving aid that was being supplied by China, a Reuters investigation found. Through phony internet accounts meant to impersonate Filipinos, the military’s propaganda efforts morphed into an anti-vax campaign. Social media posts decried the quality of face masks, test kits and the first vaccine that would become available in the Philippines – China’s Sinovac inoculation.
Reuters identified at least 300 accounts on X, formerly Twitter, that matched descriptions shared by former U.S. military officials familiar with the Philippines operation. Almost all were created in the summer of 2020 and centered on the slogan #Chinaangvirus – Tagalog for China is the virus.
Yellow Peril 3.0 or is it 4.0?
We’d need a lot less 
security software if we used a lot less 
operating system software designed to spy on us and vomit our information for resale in the first place.
Uncle Sam sanctions Kaspersky’s top bosses – but not Mr K himself
Uncle Sam took another swing at Kaspersky Lab today and sanctioned a dozen C-suite and senior-level executives at the antivirus maker, but spared CEO and co-founder Eugene Kaspersky.
The move prevents US persons and organizations from doing business with the designated individuals. Any non-US financial institution that works with them also risks sanctions under Executive Order 13873.
The US Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) cited national security threats in designating the 12 individuals as under sanction. In making the announcement, it also noted: “OFAC has not designated Kaspersky Lab, its parent or subsidiary companies, or its CEO.”
The Treasury did, however, designate just about every other exec who reports directly to the Moscow-based firm’s chief exec “for operating in the technology sector of the Russian Federation economy,” which under EO 14024 is a no-no.
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Kettle:
As long as there has been communication- there’s been spies. And gov back doors. Steaming open letters etc.
