Pete Strzok has caught something very sinister in testimony

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29. But it's not. It is for most of us, for our use, and

it was for a couple of years, but now sophisticated means exist to surveil targeted users.

Once the U.S. govt. froze out NSO -- an Israeli based company that tried to sell its product, Pegasus, to law enforcement and intell agencies -- a new firm is being used, this time through the Israeli govt itself. Ehud Barak sits on its board, and so its marketing seems to be more legitimate.

Paragon, it's called. Its core tech focusses not on seizing complete control of phones, but on hacking encrypted messaging systems like Telegram and Signal. It has sold to offices within the U.S. government.

Evil nor not, it sells to a narrow list of countries with uncontroversial human rights records.

Here's Ronan Farrow's long article that includes this info.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/04/25/how-democracies-spy-on-their-citizens

Quantum computing isn't even needed, apparently.