If they could do this on iOS, your Linux phone doesn't stand a chance. They'll find bugs in it.

It probably cost millions of dollars to put together a team to develop and deploy this - it was only worth the investment because it could be reliably used against anyone with an iphone.

One of many tools, my man. Personally my security mantra is “don’t become an enemy of the state”

There's no such thing as a "secure operating system," at least not one with any adoption whatsoever.