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There is no downside for Apple. The legal costs are insignificant for them. They do not bear any extra punitive cost even if the lawsuit is meritless. Meanwhil
by miohtama 6y ago
There is no downside for Apple. The legal costs are insignificant for them. They do not bear any extra punitive cost even if the lawsuit is meritless.
Meanwhile the PR damage or liability for having a security exploits running wild is massive. Corporate actions have no ethics or moral - it is simple bean counting for Apple. Any people who get part in this cannot lose their jobs no matter what is the outcome.
- dogma1138 6y agoThere are huge downsides to the community, what’s next someone will sue the maintainers of nmap? If Apple wins the case it would be terrible for the infosec community, every business that got pwned due to a 5 year old wordless exploit will be able to sue Rapid7 which would quite likely mean that Metasploit will be too much of a liability to maintain.
- floatingatoll 6y agonmap neithers develops nor withholds Apple hardware and software exploits from Apple, nor offers a paid cloud service for those purposes. On what basis were you viewing nmap as a potential target for lawsuits?