Re:NSO Group's iPhone Zero-Days used against a UAE Human Rig...
by pixl97 on Friday August 26, 2016 @09:16AM
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The analogy still fails.
If you have the tooling to keep smallpox and not kill yourself you can also keep ebola around too, if you go to the effort to go find it. Really dangerous stuff and is going to be costly.
The problem here is I can make and keep 'digital smallpox' on my home PC, and for many pieces of equipment it is surprisingly easy to find exploits for them. Are you planning on watching every computer? Every person in the world?
Take a lesson from the failed war on drugs, where there is significant profit motivation people will do what is necessary to make massive amounts of money. There are massive amounts of money in blackhat work.
If you have the tooling to keep smallpox and not kill yourself you can also keep ebola around too, if you go to the effort to go find it. Really dangerous stuff and is going to be costly.
The problem here is I can make and keep 'digital smallpox' on my home PC, and for many pieces of equipment it is surprisingly easy to find exploits for them. Are you planning on watching every computer? Every person in the world?
Take a lesson from the failed war on drugs, where there is significant profit motivation people will do what is necessary to make massive amounts of money. There are massive amounts of money in blackhat work.