Which is why I run GrapheneOS.

Hi, I represent a country. That's disgusting. Global surveillance of the citizenry? Ugh, these disgusting insecure private surveillance devices. I mean, there's so many of them though.. Which one? Which one is offering that service?

You do realize that spying on Americans is one of the reasons that America keeps Israel around right?

First avoid the major social apps. They are designed to give their companies access to your private information for advertising and selling, so of course these have lots of ways for nefarious attacks without user intervention since they aren't likely to spend money keeping them out. Also, wouldn't hurt to move to an OS that better isolates apps (like GrapheneOS) and avoid background services with administrative privileges like iOS or Google Services. GrapheneOS isolates Google services a bit or allows never installing them. IPhone has no real way to mitigate risk outside of the basics like encrypting your device and online data, but the admin services still have access. Not sure how easily they are hacked these days since they haven't really been promoting privacy anymore, but have also started wanting to profit from your data. Still slightly better than google, but way less control over the device which means you're at their mercy. I want even get started on Samsung administrative services...and I don't know the others well.

At some level, you have to accept that there's no panacea to the panopticon. At least, none at the retail level.

Ffs, flock cameras and facial recognition make even MeatSpace a shitshow of privacy violations.

Ultimately, the real defense against spying is irrelevance. 99.99% of people simply aren't interesting enough to monitor in a way that matters.

You must assume that anything you communicate electronically can be traced back to you. Even if it's encrypted, if they just hack your OS and read the messages from a screen capture they can still access it.

the issue is the os being insecure, not the apps

Almost certainly not

Probably not, see: https://alternativeto.net/news/2026/11/signal-fork-molly-goes-3-months-without-updates-leaving-users-exposed-to-vulnerabilities/

I think big tech helps Palantir and similars. So if a website has javascript from Google, which most websites have, then you are at risk when visiting that website. One could be hacked this way easily if the operating system is not secure

what you're thinking of is grapheneOS not graphite the spyware

Not related to Graphite OS, Nor Graphene OS

This is it:

https://stateofsurveillance.org/news/paragon-graphite-spyware-ice-phone-hacking-2026/

I think you mean GrapheneOS, the security-hardened Android distribution. No, it is not related to the Graphite spyware, and likely reduces the user's exposure to such attacks.

No it's a spyware tool called Graphite.