Zerodium to stop paying bounties for iOS due to sheer amount of vulnerabilities
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Re: Zerodium to stop paying bounties for iOS due to sheer amount of vulnerabilities
#2Apple with it’s large war chest and claim of being security and privacy first should prevent most of these bugs.
I don’t expect the same from Google’s Android as their business model is on harvesting data and NOT selling you a secure and privacy-first device.
Re: Zerodium to stop paying bounties for iOS due to sheer amount of vulnerabilities
#3This makes a pretty good argument for open-sourcing OS software.
"Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow" - Linus Torvalds
Re: Zerodium to stop paying bounties for iOS due to sheer amount of vulnerabilities
#4Apple with it’s large war chest and claim of being security and privacy first should prevent most of these bugs. I don’t expect the same from Google’s Android as their business model is on harvesting data and NOT selling you a secure and privacy-first device.
Google would still like their devices secure. Can't have someone else rooting it and redirecting the sweet sweet data feed...
Re: Zerodium to stop paying bounties for iOS due to sheer amount of vulnerabilities
#5This makes a pretty good argument for open-sourcing OS software. "Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow" - Linus Torvalds
You assume that because many people could look for bugs, many people do.
I added an easter egg to a widely used piece of software many year ago. Noone discovered it until another maintainer published it, maybe a decade later.
Re: Zerodium to stop paying bounties for iOS due to sheer amount of vulnerabilities
#6Related posts are the real winners, this one was two down from the one linked:
https://twitter.com/aionescu/status/1260466215299973121?s=20
Re: Zerodium to stop paying bounties for iOS due to sheer amount of vulnerabilities
#7Apple with it’s large war chest and claim of being security and privacy first should prevent most of these bugs. I don’t expect the same from Google’s Android as their business model is on harvesting data and NOT selling you a secure and privacy-first device.
So Google does not have an interest in keeping their users safe from exploits? Even with things like Project Zero going on in the background?
At this point most people should have realized that Apple's privacy stance is first and foremost a marketing thing.