and required that the NSA have had actual possession of the iPhone at sometime to install the exploit spyware.You know if German Chancellor Angela Merkel ever left her iPhone someplace or not?
That would be like asking if the President of the United States's phone were left somewhere it could be compromised by a foreign agent, don't you think? The really FUNNY thing is that while she did have an iPhone, it was her PERSONAL phone. . . which she did not use for government business. She used a government issued "secure" NOKIA phone for government business:
Snowden reported that the NSA and CIA had been tapping the German government phones since 2002. . . and that Obama had specifically authorized tapping Merkel for three years prior to Snowden fleeing. LOL!