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> Without being opposition in some of that state, most of us handle money in their insecure devices. Can we be sure that "ordinary" criminals don't have enough
by _kbh_ 3y ago
> Without being opposition in some of that state, most of us handle money in their insecure devices. Can we be sure that "ordinary" criminals don't have enough access for their purposes?
A Android or iOS full chain is likely worth a couple million American each. Due to the extreme prices you can be sure when governments use it they do their best to hide their tracks to not burn the vulnerabilities.
Stealing someone’s money is probably a very noticeable way to burn your exploits or at least alert someone to fact that their device has been compromised.
- ufmace 3y agoYup this. These vulnerabilities are far too valuable to use for petty crime. You'll never get an equivalent return from using them to compromise a handful of phones, and if you use them on a large scale, they'll get noticed and patched fast. It's pretty much only used by Governments on whoever they consider to be an enemy of the state.