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Let's assume this is how Bezos's phone was hacked for a second, does anyone think Trump would do anything about it? Sanction Saudia Arabia? Trump didn't lift a finger after the Jamal Khashoggi killing and his son-in-law is deep in various business dealings with MBS and his goons. Hell, Trump is probably happy the Saudis are hacking the phone of his perceived "enemy".

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Doubt he or any other president would do anything about it. When was the last time any administration gave the Saudi government more than a weak reprimand for their antics? Some of our "allies" can do no wrong.

Because the USA is doing the same to them and their political/military/business leaders. This is par for the course. Everyone is hacking everyone. I'm surprised that they (the NSA) didn't give Bezos a hardened phone and full security audit. Maybe he didn't let them.

What do you want Trump to do?

Is this something a President or anyone in government employ should care about? A private citizen using a commercial app on a private phone granted that app some permissions he later regretted. Why should USA taxpayers care about that?

It is reasonable and normal for governments to care when other governments attack their citizens.

If I got hacked, no one in government would care. Why should Bezos be different?

Bezos is the CEO/president of a company that employs 750,000 people in the United States. You are presumably not.

By that logic, nobody should care about the Khashoggi killing as well.

I don't agree that hacking an app and murder are the same. The state obviously has an interest in preventing murder.

But it doesn't have an interest in protecting your other rights? Interesting.

I don't have a right to be stopped from installing insecure software. Any rights in this area go in pretty much the opposite direction.

Will Bezos's divorce affect the Amazon empire in any way? Wondering if that personal move will somehow have corporate, technological infrastructural, and thus national security repercussions.

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