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Podcast: This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro
Episode: Who Is Spying On Your Phone?
Description: Imagine a state-sponsored surveillance app secretly monitoring everything on your phone; recording it all for some shady intelligence agency so they can direct assassins to come cut you to ribbons and carry you away in a suitcase.
Now, imagine that's not fiction.
It is in fact, exactly what happened to Saudi-born Washington Post Journalist, Jamal Khashoggi in 2018, when he was brutally murdered inside a Turkish embassy by agents of the Saudi government, who tracked him by using a spyware app called Pegasus secretly implanted on his fiance's phone.
But that software didn't just wind up there willy-nilly. It was put the...