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Cellebrite: We Keep iPhone Flaws Secret for the Public's Safety
- bmcusick 9y agoRight, it’s in the public interest to keep open vulnerabilities that China and Russia can exploit.
- olliej 9y agoOr more realistically arbitrary people trying to get access to passwords and cc info.
- colejohnson66 9y agoNo, you keep them secret so you can stay in business. If you actually cared about the public, you’d be reporting them to Apple.
- helthanatos 9y agoRemember that High Sierra update that left a nice privilege elevation bug for like a month? That never happened... If you never admit to it, it never happened. Apple's security philosophy.
- DrScump 9y agoHas Apple offered them an appropriate bug bounty?
- lvh 9y agoWho is “them”? Cellebrite is mostly in the business of buying vulns, not developing them. That said: Apple pays $100k for SE leaks and $200k for boot firmware vulns. Based on described capability, the iOS11 vuln in question would be one of these two.
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- crb002 9y agoUntil they use it in a Felony trial and their means/methods get cross examined. No trade secrets in forensics bro.