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Ontario Police Deploy Secret Spyware That Lets Them Remotely Take Over Your Phone
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this post was submitted on 21 May 2026
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Not buying it.
Buying what? Like you don't believe the police can, will, or has done this?
The spyware. They're gonna boycott it
How could they load software on the phone? They could use stingray systems possibly or any man in the middle but what if your network traffic is behind a vpn, what if your device is secured. I doubt they can simply CONTROL your device and how it operates from a distance reliably and en mass.
Zero day backdoors without any interaction from the user are proven possible. Look at Pegasus spyware. The majority of data breaches are due to zero day hacks.
Police does not randomly use zero days. That wound be a massive waste.
Waste of what