Pegasus Visits Another Lucky iPhone

Just another Tuesday in IT, where Vladan Đokić, rector of the University of Belgrade, found his iPhone cheerfully infected with NSO Group's Pegasus spyware. It appears even academic figures supporting student protests cannot escape digital surveillance before an election. Protecting oneself from this brand of spyware seemingly boils down to praying your device escapes notice, because conventional defences clearly achieved nothing here. Why do we even bother expecting mobile hardware to stay uncompromised in this day and age?