Better than an Obama phone ?

https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/International-relations/US-China-tensions/US-lawmakers-to-back-1.9bn-to-replace-Huawei-ZTE-equipment

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. lawmakers are expected to endorse $1.9 billion to fund a program to remove telecom network equipment that the U.S. government says pose national security risks as part of a year-end spending bill and COVID-19 bill, a source briefed on the matter said Sunday.

Lawmakers are also expected to back $3.2 billion for an emergency broadband benefit for low-income Americans.

The Federal Communications Commission said in June it had formally designated China's Huawei Technologies and ZTE as threats, a declaration that bars U.S. firms from tapping an $8.3 billion government fund to purchase equipment from the companies. Earlier this month, the FCC finalized rules that require carriers with ZTE or Huawei equipment to "rip and replace" that equipment but is awaiting funding from Congress.

The bill "establishes a temporary, emergency broadband benefit program at the FCC to help low-income Americans, including those economically-challenged by the COVID-19 pandemic, get connected or remain connected to broadband," the source said.

The source also said the program will supply a $50 monthly subsidy to qualifying households "to help them afford broadband service and an internet-connected device."

https://thenationalpulse.com/breaking/trump-supreme-court-petition/

BREAKING: Trump Camp Files 267-Page Certiorari Petition To Supreme Court (READ)

The Trump campaign filed a petition for writ of certiorari to the US. Supreme Court aimed at reversing a trio of Pennsylvania Supreme Court cases that “illegally changed Pennsylvania’s mail balloting law immediately before and after the 2020 presidential election.”

https://www.scribd.com/document/488769028/Trump-v-Boockvar-Petition#from_embed

https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2020/12/20/apple-security-warning-zero-click-iphone-hacks-hit-36-al-jazeera-journalists/?sh=5597e8713b5a

This summer, iPhones belonging to as many as 36 Al Jazeera journalists were silently infected with malware, according to research released Sunday. They were subjected to silent attacks that appeared to exploit a vulnerability in Apple’s iOS and installed malware on the iOS devices, leaving reporters’ phones open to snooping, the researchers claimed.

Citizen Lab, a University of Toronto research body that tracks surveillance companies, claimed the malware was most likely created by NSO Group, an Israeli spy tech vendor that is currently defending itself in a lawsuit brought by Facebook, over attacks on 1,400 WhatsApp users in 2019. Citizen Lab also claimed with “medium confidence” that the attacks were likely carried out by snoops in Saudi Arabia and the U.A.E., using NSO’s powerful tools.

The malware could record audio from the iPhone microphone, including extracting the audio of encrypted phone calls. It could also take pictures, track device location and access passwords, Citizen Lab said.