German government warns lawmakers their iPhones may be spyware targets

Someone can take over your iPhone with a text you never even open. You don't tap anything. The spyware gets in by itself, and from there it can switch on your microphone and read your messages. Germany just warned members of its parliament that this may have happened to their phones. And get this. Back in 2019, Germany's own federal police bought a custom version of Pegasus, the most famous spyware that works exactly this way. That's on the record. The BKA's vice president, Martina Link, admitted it to a Bundestag committee in 2021. She said they bought a modified build because the full version could do more than German law allows. Think about that for a second. A government had to get a spyware company to tone its product down so it would be legal to use at home. Plenty of other…