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This has been asked and discussed in this thread already: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28516795 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28516795 In short:
by TonyTrapp 5y ago
This has been asked and discussed in this thread already: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28516795 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28516795
In short: Just because they got access to the phone in March doesn't mean that they were already aware of the zero-day exploit back then. Finding this kind of stuff takes a while.
- willis936 5y agoWe (the public) have known about FORCEDENTRY for 6 months. That time was spent analyzing and understanding the exploit. It does seem like a long time for such a public zero-click affecting 100s of millions of users.