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Re:Journalists Hacked with Suspected NSO Group iMessage ‘Zer... by bzb6 on Monday December 21, 2020 @06:13AM (#25493863)
They should’ve sent the phones to Apple to investigate.
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Re:Journalists Hacked with Suspected NSO Group iMessage ‘Zer... by saagarjha on Monday December 21, 2020 @01:30PM (#25497796)
Perhaps they did?
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Re:Journalists Hacked with Suspected NSO Group iMessage ‘Zer... by hda111 on Monday December 21, 2020 @01:35PM (#25497854)
Why would Apple investigate? This costs thousands of dollars and Apple isn’t a forensics service provider.
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Re:Journalists Hacked with Suspected NSO Group iMessage ‘Zer... by alpb on Tuesday December 22, 2020 @02:31AM (#25503881)
News like "zero-click iMessage to root exploit" costs Apple millions of dollars as it's a PR nightmare and erodes the trust they spent years (+tens of millions of dollars) building. Those "thousands of dollars" they would spend on forensics would be their least concern.

Imagine The Guardian, The New York Times and several other top journals covered this story with a sensational title like "Our Journalists' iPhones are hacked remotely". There's no going back from that.

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