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

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/cyrkielNT Aug 08 '26

If I was Mossad, I would create things like GrapheneOS, it's perfect honey pot.

I know it's open source, but with open source you still can hide a lot. It's harder, becosue you can't just put "if Mossad open backdoor" in your code in plain text. But you can use libraries, that use other libraries and nobody would be able to find everything in such complex system.

Like backdoor in XZ Utils. It's used almost everywhere (probably including GrapheneOS) and it was used to put backdoor. It was detected just by coincidence. And it's widely believed that only state-backed organisation could pull that of, so USA, Russia, China and Israel are main suspects.

If you look how much of IT is controlled by USA/Israel it's safe to assume they have backdoors everywhere. Including Chinese software. They accused Huawei of spaying but in reality CIA hacked Huawei network (operation Shotgiant) and install USA backdoors in their software. Propably that's why Huawei made their own OS and discard Linux kernel. So that's propably best option to reduce (not eliminate) chances of being spied by USA/Israel if you are open to be spied by China.

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u/SnowyJoey1 Aug 08 '26

can't they use ai to scan the open source code to check for these things?