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Given Apple's almost unlimited cash they could always make companies like this an offer no intelligent person could turn down (especially if public) and have th
by coldcode 11y ago
Given Apple's almost unlimited cash they could always make companies like this an offer no intelligent person could turn down (especially if public) and have them explain what they do.
- mtgx 11y agoI wonder, is Apple hiring such companies to poke holes at its OS before it gets out of beta, or even after it's launched? Because if not, maybe they should.
- zimpenfish 11y agoYes, they are. http://www.engadget.com/2016/02/03/apple-legbacore-thunderstrike-acquisition/ http://www.engadget.com/2016/02/03/apple-legbacore-thunderst... "All was quiet after the researchers' announcement, and for good reason: Apple purchased their security firm -- LegbaCore -- just two months after news of Thunderstrike 2 broke. According to the company's founder Xeno Kovah, the team is going to be working on "low-level security" at Apple, which we'll take as shorthand for making sure that OS X's firmware is less susceptible to attacks in the future."
- venomsnake 11y agoWhen you mix with operative/intelligence crowd - the work is incredibly fun, the access you have to all kinds of info (and people and gear) is unprecedented and the generous compensation is a nice side effect. Apple can top the compensation, but not the first two parts.
- Nrsolis 11y agoThose who know don't say, those who say don't know.
- sumoboy 11y agoApple should stop being stubborn and start offering up a bug bounty program and start paying out big $$.
- ascorbic 11y agoThey don't need to. It seems to be widely accepted that they most likely used NVRAM cloning.