France Develops New Secure Phone for Macron Amid Pegasus Spyware Concerns

No matter how much Morocco assures President Emmanuel Macron and other senior French officials that they did not hack their phones using the Israeli spyware Pegasus, France continues to play the vigilance card. The Directorate General of the Armed Forces is working to replace Teorem, an ultra-secure phone launched in 2006, "entrusted to Emmanuel Macron, senior officials, the military and sensitive personnel of the French state" with a new device that is faster and less bulky, encrypting conversations in real time, reveals the newspaper Le Monde.

A few weeks after the revelations of the international consortium created by Forbidden Stories on the espionage by Morocco of the mobile phone numbers of President Emmanuel Macron and other senior French officials, using the Israeli software Pegasus, designed to fight crime and terrorism, about twenty government members have received new secure smartphones with a restricted address book.