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toasterblender

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    Comment #37617320

    The same that it works in any other industry. By hiring those with proven track records, the best of the best. The goal is obviously not to hire 100% of the potential 0-day hunters…

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    Comment #37617287

    > What was the sandbox escape on Android? Even if you had code execution inside the Chrome process on Android, that shouldn't be enough to enable persistence, so clearly there's an…

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    Comment #37617225

    If the number of skilled 0-day hunters who will work for a paycheck is > 0, then yours is a moot point, since a poaching program would still make an impact even if there are some p…

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    Comment #37617184

    > Poach them to do what? Poach them to discover 0-days in their software, as I said.

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    Comment #37617157

    Project Zero is amazing, but they 1) seem like a very small team, and 2) their mandate is far too broad (essentially to search for 0-days in anything, versus a specific system). Wh…

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    Comment #37617073

    > But while they could try and poach them today, tomorrow there will be a whole load of new people working for those companies, and it'll just be a never-ending cycle. The number o…

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    Comment #37617054

    Poaching founders is an entirely different kettle of fish than just poaching line employees.

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    Comment #37616977

    Here is what I do not understand: Spyware firms and 0-day vendors both have staff dedicating to finding 0-days. Why do Google and Apple not simply poach these staff? I am sure Goog…

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    Comment #37589960

    This reminds me of when Signal messenger locked users out of their chats until they set a device PIN several years(?) ago. The fact that people may have been in the middle of impor…

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    Comment #37589940

    'Privacy' is in the title of the article, not 'privacy policies'. Reducing 'privacy' to just privacy policies is overly reductive, let alone speculative that that's what the author…

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    Comment #37579185

    The problem with generic advice like this is that it is invariably opinionated and unexplained. For example, what makes Firefox, Safari, and Brave ethical browsers but Edge and Chr…

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    Comment #37548312

    Thank you for putting the time in the title.

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    Comment #37539446

    > I‘m only buying quality stuff and stick to it as long a possible. Most of my cloth are years old. > I’m buying a new iPhone if the one i have doesn’t get any updates anymore Ther…