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I hope more organizations do this.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/10/faceb...
It’s ironic that the exploit is able to plant arbitrary code on an up-to-date device and yet the owner of the phone can’t introspect their phone to see it themselves because they don’t know how to bypass the protections :/
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WhatsApp "attempted" to get NSOs export license revoked and failed. How would you expect America to stop two of their allies from dealing with each other (with a potential courtship in the works)? Especially when America itself gets major weapons contracts to look the other way? This will just continue to get worse. More journalists and human rights activists will die because some delusional maniacs feelings were hur…
Everyone involved from NSO execs through to the Saudi's and Emirati's should be facing DOJ indictments no different to what Russian, North Korean and Chinese hackers face This thin veneer of NSO being a legitimate company has been exposed
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A lot of the teams inside Apple who create first-party apps like iMessage are understaffed compared to their competitors. They should really hire more security folks. A lot of Apple's product security work seems to be outsourced to Google Project Zero.
Yet they somehow roll out some crazy new memoji or drawing feature every year Their priorities are just in the wrong place
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Whether the actions are technically illegal doesn't really matter unless we are already punishing anyone that breaks those laws. In your hypothetical, we would be punishing Somalia when Italy did the exact same thing unpunished.
I forgot to add on my hypothetical that the Somalian government was protecting me. In which case it would be valid for people to be calling for sanctions let alone revocation of state aid. Iirc, hacking team dissolved or greatly downsized after their leak. I do not recall any cases against them for their export license to be revoked. I'm sure if the Italian courts rejected the case baselessly then there would be cons…
This isn't true. On top of the general disaster aid, including $10 million for COVID, we have seven US military bases in the country which accounts for millions a year in aid.
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>You have to start somewhere Then start with yourself. I'm not condoning Israel's actions but punishing them for what we still do is tyranny.
We can start with ourselves by not sending military aid to Israel.
More generally, is there a known correlation between kernel panics and exploits, especially on macOS? > Almisshal’s device shows what appears to be an unusual number of kernel panics (phone crashes) between January and July 2020. While some of the panics may be benign, they may also indicate earlier attempts to exploit vulnerabilities against his device.
I seem to hear a lot about iOS 0days and not so much about pixel 0days.
As someone that isn't a developer, I wonder how many zero days come from people inside the software team. To simply have knowledge of a difficult bug that hasn't been resolved would seem to be valuable commodity in a closed source system.
When engineers make companies that sell tools like this, it makes all the talk you see about ethical AI and privacy look like bikeshedding.