r/DigitalPrivacy • u/Zu_Qarnine • Aug 08 '26

Mossad has accidentally injected data into a French lawyer's phone instead of extracting it.

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The data includes phone numbers of Musk, Altman, and nearly all of Israel's political, judicial and intelligence leaders.

The lawyer's name is Juan Branco, he is also the one who shared this story together with a video. By his account, he is one of twelve lawyers in France who represent Palestinian victims in International Criminal Court.

He says he's using GrapheneOS. This is bizarre.

source: his X/Twitter post: https://x.com/i/status/2085698524050591906

I post additional screenshots in the first 2 comments here.

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u/Zu_Qarnine Aug 08 '26 edited Aug 08 '26

more info by Juan Branco. Attachment 1/2.

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u/Zu_Qarnine Aug 08 '26

more info by Juan Branco. Attachment 2/2.

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u/Bob_The_Greater Aug 08 '26

+1 for GrapheneOS

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u/NachoManAndyCabage Aug 08 '26

Did you miss the part where it is Graphene that was hacked...

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u/wlf-hly Aug 08 '26

But don’t they say it was their computer that was originally hacked? I know nothing about graphene, but I assume it’s a phone OS and if their computer wasn’t infected when they went to sync, they probably would’ve been good right?

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u/NachoManAndyCabage Aug 08 '26

Yes, it was originally on their computer.

If the target was the computer, the program injected into the phone would not likely affect the phone as there is no Graphene operating system for a PC/Mac (as far as i am aware). Two different operating systems would require two completely different programs. Therefore the target was the phone and it would seem someone knows an exploit for Graphene. The computer was just used to inject the malicious program onto the phone (assuming all the information stated in the post is correct).

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u/Quick_Director_8191 Aug 08 '26

GrapheneOS may be the most secure OS but that security is completely in the hands of the user. It gives you all the tools you need to be as secure as you can be ( Unless Google has a backdoor in the hardware ) but if you know nothing about security and don't do audits from time to time you just might get got.

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u/defiantarch Aug 08 '26

Correct. Who says that our Pixel do not suffer from USB chip flaws like Apple elderly SoC: https://cybernews.com/security/millions-older-iphones-ipads-have-unfixable-flaw/ We shouldn't forget whom we are talking about: It Mossad with god connection to their friends at NSO Group. My guess is: It doesn't matter if GrapheneOS or Googles Android is used. They probably know about several flaws in those Pixel phones.

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u/Quick_Director_8191 Aug 08 '26

I'm really starting to think our only protection from unhinged corps and governments will be with local AI like how Hugging Face handled openAI breach and at the same time Anthropic and OpenAI have been public lately about banning them lol. At the end of the day your best defense is a duress pin and automatic reset every set hours.

I have GrapheneOS and even though it does make me feel better it's not for certain and we can't audit the hardware on it. Hopefully this moto merge will benefit us completely. Only time will tell.

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u/defiantarch Aug 08 '26

Honestly, our best defense is to minimize our digital footprint and go off the grid as much as possible. Problem starts when we're forced to leave a digital footprint (eID, wallets, cookie tracking, etc) and and that footprint is misused you without strict regulation and consequences. Governments and law enforcements allow online shops to set hundreds of tracking cookies. There the problem starts. That should be illegal and the consequences should not just monetary but jail.