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Next level conspiracy theory: Apple employs, knowingly or unknowingly, CIA/NSA agents who intentionally introduce these bugs.
by rlt 5y ago
Next level conspiracy theory: Apple employs, knowingly or unknowingly, CIA/NSA agents who intentionally introduce these bugs.
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- tptacek 5y agoIt would indeed be a next-level conspiracy theory to suggest the NSA planted an employee at Apple to introduce a GameCenter bug that lets you read a cache of contacts, rather than, you know, just taking the whole device over, which is what "zero day" usually implies.
- 0des 5y agozero day only implies that it is novel, day 0 of something being in the wild.
- akerl_ 5y agoThe first day that anything is available is technically “day 0”, but if I told you I had a PS5 zero day you’d assume I’d discovered a major compromise of the PS5, not that I’d managed to purchase a console the day they went on sale.
- tptacek 5y agoThat's true, but the implication of "zero day" in a new story is code execution, because those are the only zero days that make the news. You can just read this thread and see that several people commenting here clearly believe these bugs were comparable to code execution. The article, uh, does not go out of its way to clear up the ambiguity.