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Raphael Satter
@raphae.li

The way this story is written it suggests -- but stops short of saying outright -- that, thanks to a turncoat in Russian military intelligence, the Dutch discovered the iOS vulnerability that the Russians had been using take screenshots of Jared Kushner's phone and helped themselves to it.

Raphael Satter
@raphae.li

The story doesn't say outright that the Dutch used the Russians' method for getting into the phone, instead saying that they "found a vulnerability." Curious. Also curious that a vulnerability would allow a spy service to take screenshots but not steal files. www.vanityfair.com/story/jared-...

vanityfair.comThe Art of the Deal: Jared Kushner’s Hacked Phone Revealed More Than $700 Million in TransfersAn exclusive excerpt from ‘Princes and Thieves: Jared Kushner and Mohamed bin Zayed’s Secret Plot to Remake the Middle East’ examines how bank accounts linked the president’s son-in-law—and former sen...

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penguins18.bsky.social
@penguins18.bsky.social

Yeah, honestly I have a pretty significant suspicion the story is not right, that the reporter was fed it by an intelligence operative for some reason I can’t fathom. It feels too pat, too convenient somehow. I dunno.