Varga updated his phone model in the years since the dinner, and an examination of his new device — an imperfect window into the past — was inconclusive on spyware penetration. But he recalled an episode when he was speaking on the phone and was surprised to overhear the beginning of his conversation, as if on playback. And, two weeks after the dinner, he said, he got an eerie warning from a person he said was close to the government. ‘I know that you had this dinner. “I didn’t know why or how she got this information that I had this dinner.”

Source: Washington Post July 18, 2021 16:07 UTC