I don't wanna give away too much in case they're reading, but they didn't use their stealthiest exploit. It was pretty obvious, especially if you monitor your network traffic.
I gotta admit I'm not in the habit of monitoring my network traffic... Gotta wonder if it's even possible to protect ourselves against this surveillance without going full OPSEC mode.
If you're developing tools you're likely testing against vendor network monitoring apps and in the habit of using them.
Ok guessing against a computer of yours and not a phone (which of course is still possible) thanks. Hope it can help all of us stay safe.
How obvious would it be to someone being hired as an office manager or janitor or similar?
Monitoring your network traffic on your local PC (ala Little Snitch or Open Snitch) or monitoring it at the gateway/router level?
At the router level. I turned off cellular data to be sure, but I don't even think that was necessary since it was on wifi.
I really don't want to belittle what you say, but this just looks like misplaced paranoia.