So You Want To Know If Your Microphone Is Bugged...

Say you have reason to believe that the State considers you enough of a visible and high-priority target to engage in expensive and time-consuming targeted digital surveillance (as opposed to sifting through your metadata generated by passive surveillance) -- and for the sake of simplicity let's assume they want to turn your phone into a snitch and take over your microphone to do so. What should you be concerned about? Based on what we know from history and what we can infer from technical docum...
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