> This won't work, as long as there is a market for hacking phones, there will be those willing to sell their expertise.

Maybe, but it'll make them way way more expensive.

> Maybe, but it'll make them way way more expensive.

Higher prices are how you attract MORE talent!

Usually, high salaries are used to attract star performers. But there's other factors at play too. Sometimes, high salaries are used as compensation for dangerous or unpleasant work. So, for example, if the NSO had to pay higher salaries because all developers whotake the job get immediately divorced by their wives and no longer invited for beer by their friends, then that wouldn't attract better talent. Regular talent is merely being compensated for the negative externalities of working for NSO.

In order for a company to attract superior talent, they need the entire package to be better than the competition (lifestyle, salary, free pizza, prestige, etc).

The mobile OS strategy failed everywhere. Now we have bad security (seriously, this is as an OS and browser error) and bad lock-in. I doubt it would have been easy to do with a decently updated, conventional desktop PC, even if you could redirect its network access like it was done here with his phone.

Even with a mitm attack on your browser, this shouldn't have happened.

“Failed”? Mobile phones are much more secure and safe platforms compared to anything which came before.