Jury orders NSO to pay $167M for hacking WhatsApp users

Re:Jury orders NSO to pay $167M for hacking WhatsApp users by alt227 on Wednesday May 07, 2025 @04:42AM (#43913445)

> Apple's security team (which is surely world-class)

Hahaha, do you read HN much? There are stories on here all the time of security holes in Apples products which they refuse to fix.

Heres a recent example of their M series CPUs having similar exploits in them to SPECTRE and MELTDOWN in Intel CPUs. The difference is Intel fixed it and took the 20% performance hit. Apple refuses to fix it because it would make their processors slower.

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/03/hackers-can-extract...

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Re:Jury orders NSO to pay $167M for hacking WhatsApp users by phendrenad2 on Wednesday May 07, 2025 @02:04PM (#43918846)

What about deciding not to "fix" an issue that is extremely hard to exploit in practice (especially on consumer-grade machines) negates my assertion that their engineers are "world-class"?

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Re:Jury orders NSO to pay $167M for hacking WhatsApp users by phendrenad2 on Thursday May 08, 2025 @01:50PM (#43929078)

Sure, just downvote me. Those who can't think for themselves, downvote.

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Re:Jury orders NSO to pay $167M for hacking WhatsApp users by alt227 on Friday May 09, 2025 @10:09AM (#43936973)

Doesnt matter about the skill of the engineers. If the boss is telling them not to fix security holes to protect performance, the apple core is rotten.

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