Because Israel figured out how compromise up-to-date phones, both android and apple, they understand other entities may have the ability to do so as well, and that may work differently to what Israel figured out, so they’re not taking any chances.
Basically they know phones can be compromised because they’ve done it, and so they understand they may not be the only ones who have done it and they also understand that others who have done it may have done it differently to what they did.
I’m really struggling at simplifying this haha
Israel can access your camera through an exploit/vulnerability using their Pegasus spyware
Israel knows they can’t be the only one with this technology
Israel knows it’s possible that others may use a different exploit/vulnerability
Israel knows not to take any chances and to cover the cameras of their own leader’s phones
They discovered a backdoor, they’re smart enough to know they’re not the only ones to discover a backdoor, they’re also smart enough to know the backdoor they discovered can’t be the only backdoor in existence.
So they attempt to mitigate the damage that can be caused by an enemy using an unknown backdoor to access the camera by covering up the camera.
It’s a low-tech but effective way to twhart a possible high-tech intrusion.
I’m running out of ways to rewrite this.
The enemy can have as many copies of your house keys as they want but they can’t get in if you pour melted wax in the keyholes.
Why? Imagine if the camera is pointed at some documents that contain information that isn’t public knowledge. Imagine if hollywood spy tech is real and you can really zoom in to A4 sheet 3 feet away to do discreet OCR. World leaders operate in the old world, everything is still on paper. Digital is either too confusing or too compromised.
Hopefully no one read that disaster of an explanation in its entirety.
Its interesting that they have covered the obvious camera but there are other highly sensitive sensors too like microphone, location, altimeter etc in a mobile.
I want to know how they are taking care of those, because short of physically de-soldering the sensors its very difficult to block them if the mobile is carried on person. op-sec is really hard.
The Afghani is not a freely convertible currency. Global banks don’t trade it at scale & no major country uses it for reserves. The Rupee, on the other hand, is widely traded, used for global settlement, held by overseas investors, and linked to open markets.
Open markets → real pricing → naturally lower value.
