Oh, sorry, I didn’t notice the date! The lockdown mode and e2e encryption were not available back then.

I didn’t see mentions of Canadian police hacking into the phone.

>> In fact, police obtained warrants to track his whereabouts using the GPS chip in his iPhone and obtain the identities of everyone he has spoken with and messaged.

But, yeah, the politico link that you cited clearly mentions that the Canadian government is a user of the phone hacking tools.

No you're right, they reportedly did not hack his phone to get the data - you're right!

My comment was more to mention that if a journalist of that guy's standing (he's basically quebecs top columnist) was not encrypting his stuff, ans that the police got to his sources, basically no source is safe.

I personally live with the acceptance that everything on my phone is public, and act accordingly, but I doubt most people reaching out to journalists-or even jouralista for that matter- have the same view.

So sadly, in effect, everyone is under surveillance, even if it's supposed to not be the case under the law.

It was also mentionned that rogue RCMP officers (FBI equivalent) spyied on a journalist without oversight - which rubs me the wrong way.