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Re:Apple silently fixes iOS zero-day, asks bug reporter to k... by Spooky23 on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @06:12PM (#28858296)
Some security people love to hand-wave and issue prophecies of doom for attribution and attention. It’s great chum for writers — easier to run with some guys grievance than research a more substantive story.
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Re:Apple silently fixes iOS zero-day, asks bug reporter to k... by tptacek on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @06:22PM (#28858359)
There's a spectrum of quality to these stories, and one sign that you're tending towards an end of that spectrum is the use of the term "zero-day" without qualification. These are bug bounties; all of these bugs are zero days, no matter how severe (or not) they are. It's literally the least important detail in the story about how a bounty is being handled.
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Re:Apple silently fixes iOS zero-day, asks bug reporter to k... by jessaustin on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @09:50PM (#28859701)
Are there lots of articles that describe zero-days but don't include the actual term "zero-day"? I may have been underestimating the state of journalism...
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