If you want to see the difference between just throwing money at the problem and an actual tier 1 threat, compare this with the Chinese iPhone 0day from fall of

If you want to see the difference between just throwing money at the problem and an actual tier 1 threat, compare this with the Chinese iPhone 0day from fall of 2019. Probably a multimillion dollar exploit, with terrible quality and no opsec on the c2 side . Just spending money doesn't get you the kind of expertise that's needed to pull off something like this. It's a bit like arguing Bill Gates is a serious threat to any naval power because he can afford to buy a nuclear attack sub; there's more to it than that.