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Saudi Arabian spies hack US phones

According to a new report Saudi spies have been exploiting security flaws within the world's cell networks to spy on US citizens through their own phones. US carriers have long since been aware of these flaws but have not made any efforts to patch them. Saudi Arabia has also planted spies at Twitter to surveil critics of the regime.

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Mon Mar 30 - TechCrunch

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