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Re:iMessage, Apple Music used by NSO Pegasus to attack journ... by ComodoHacker on Monday July 19, 2021 @02:40PM (#27885917)
>so you have one piece of software to exploit and now you can attack everyone. The extreme lack of diversity makes these sorts of complex exploits much more profitable.

The flip side is the lack of diversity makes patching easy. Good luck pushing an update patching a 0-day affecting 3-4 Android versions to 60% of devices.

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Re:iMessage, Apple Music used by NSO Pegasus to attack journ... by swiley on Monday July 19, 2021 @02:56PM (#27886093)
That's why you should be using dynamic linking, something these closed mobile OSes effectively prohibit.
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