>Sounds like it’s safer to just not use a phone or try and circle through a series of them you buy second hand or something.

the book Pegasus by laurent richard chronicles the challenges the journalists who brought us the pegasus leaked list with 50k + targets had to go through. Anyone who has grown cynical to journalism over time will be humbled by the death and terror that journalists endure to challenge regimes like SA or morocco. Pegasus was on jamal Kashoggi and his mistress(? iirc) phones.