Hacker News Reader

It's more than enough to infect him with 0days on imessage/whatsapp etc. That's how Bezos got hacked. All they needed was his phone number and using NSO's Pegasus they got full control over his phone. In the case of Zelensky it's even worse, he probably discusses war tactics all day every day. An adversary having that information is equivalent to breaking the Enigma in WW2.

View on HN

Bezos didn't get hacked. His girlfriend's brother leaked the texts.

https://www.wired.com/story/bezos-phone-hack-mbs-saudi-arabi...

> An April 2021 Bloomberg investigation found that AMI's Chief Content Officer Dylan Howard, National Enquirer editor James Robertson, and Andrea Simpson, an L.A.-based reporter for AMI all stated in federal court that Michael Sanchez was the sole source of all the information and compromising material they received during the investigation and that Saudi Arabia was not involved.

I guess it's up for debate and both things may be true. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Bezos_phone_hacking

Think about what you are saying.

Do you really think a threat actor with those resources needs a blurred image to get his phone number?

Reply on news.ycombinator.com