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And we have proof of it happening. A few weeks back, Kaspersky labs and the FSB found thousands of Iphones had been taken over by the NSA or another ABC agency. Russia subsequently banned all Iphones for any government usage. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russia-says-us-hacked...

You might say well I am not on their list to target. That could change at any time if you speak up and start becoming a problem. They did it to Tucker Carlson.




> They did it to Tucker Carlson.

"They" did what? Are you referring to the texts with other hosts that were exposed in the dominion lawsuit?


No it was seemingly not related to Dominion. Tucker wanted to interview Putin. His emails to someone in Kremlin trying to arrange it were intercepted. Then messages he was sending through Signal were also read. Somebody who knew him in the government warned him that he was under surveillance and knew what he was sending. He has explained this in various interviews. Whatever you might think of his views, he is pretty honest and would not be making it up.


> Whatever you might think of his views, he is pretty honest

He's been repeatedly caught lying through his teeth and he's on record admitting that he lies if he's "cornered or something." but that he tries to never lie on TV, but of course that was before we got all that evidence of the lies he spewed for ages on TV too, so I guess he was "cornered" when he said that. The man lies for a living. You may want to adjust your understanding of "honest".


Without reliable evidence you're describing nothing more than a professional talking head being a talking head.


> messages he was sending through Signal were also read.

That the encryption on Signal has been cracked and/or the corporation has been compromised is a bold claim and I am going to need more than someones uncle on facebook saying it is true to believe it.


Tucker explained how this guy inside an agency told him what they knew which was sent over Signal. They could have either compromised/compelled Signal or taken over his device. Although Tucker thought it was the former, I think the latter is more likely as it has been done many times.


Or he just made up the whole thing.

“When you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”




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