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Re:Apple alerts users in 92 nations to mercenary spyware att... by josefresco on Thursday April 11, 2024 @12:27PM (#40003970)
It doesn't take much to be a target. CIA spy maybe not, but the net is wide when it comes to surveillance. Infrastructure providers, higher education, research labs are all common targets.
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Re:Apple alerts users in 92 nations to mercenary spyware att... by duxup on Thursday April 11, 2024 @02:05PM (#40005022)
>It doesn't take much to be a target.

I wonder how to quantify this. Even folks in those industries listed while there may be reason we could imagine to target them... I would imagine lots of folks in those same industries are NOT targeted.

Of course we'd have to identify "targeted", personally I wouldn't include "your name ended up on a list after someone grepped a bunch of data". I would think of as targeted as a more curated type list / process / and then the call was made to "target" someone.

Otherwise, heck random scanning on the internet would be "targeted".

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