Re:A Message about iOS Security
by tptacek on Friday September 06, 2019 @04:13PM
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iOS zero-day RCE vulnerabilities were used, for a significant period of time, by the PRC to target its threatened Uighur minority and friends of that community. People probably died as a result. If anything, the findings of Google's report weren't sensationalized enough.
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Apparently it was Uighurs outside of China that were also targeted by Android vulnerabilities, as per this article: "Confirmed: Google’s Android Suffers Sustained Attacks By Anti-Uighur Hackers" https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2019/09/03/confi...
(Edit: added title, changed wording to remove unclear usage of expat).