Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Wednesday, January 22nd, 2020.

I'm Brian McCullough. Today, the whole Jeff Bazes' phone got hacked thing blows up into something crazy.

That rumored cheap iPhone might be mere weeks away.

Is Amazon music almost as big as Apple Music, Cruise

unveils the origin, self-driving car and the first test of

voting via smartphone in the US.

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In my nearly two years doing this podcast, there has not been a single story that has been crazier than this one and it just keeps getting crazier. You probably heard it already, but all I can do is really just quote from the Guardian

piece that broke this news last night, quote, the Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos had his mobile phone hacked in 2018 after receiving a

what-sap message that had apparently been sent from the personal account of the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, sources have told the

guardian. The encrypted message from the number used by Mohammed bin Salman is believed

to have included a malicious file that infiltrated the phone of the world's

richest man according to the results of a digital forensic analysis.

This analysis found it quote highly probable end quote that the intrusion into the

phone was triggered by an infected video

file sent from the account of the Saudi air to

Bezos the owner of the Washington Post

the two men had been having a seemingly friendly what- when on the 1st of May that year the

unsolicited file was sent according to sources who spoke to the Guardian on the condition

of anonymity.

Large amounts of data were exfiltrated from Bezos' the what was used."

So the forensic work in question was done on behalf of Bézos by the firm

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