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Apple isn’t going to have internal bounties that can compete with nation state budgets.
by mensetmanusman 3y ago
Apple isn’t going to have internal bounties that can compete with nation state budgets.
- washadjeffmad 3y agoApple is a nation state.
- TheSpiceIsLife 3y agoApple has more employees than Kiribati's population. More employees than the smallest 60 countries.
- saagarjha 3y agoMost of those people are not engineers.
- TheSpiceIsLife 3y agoMicronesians or Apple employees?
- saagarjha 3y agoYes.
- mensetmanusman 3y agoSnap of Xi’s finger and they mostly disappear. https://www.mediaite.com/tv/tim-cook-silent-fox-reporter-confronts-apple-ceo-over-airdrop-and-protests-in-china-heres-how-that-went/amp/ https://www.mediaite.com/tv/tim-cook-silent-fox-reporter-con...
- dragonwriter 3y agoApple has annual revenue greater than the GDP of any of the bottom ~4/5 of nation-states.
- astrange 3y agoThe problem with internal bounties is that you'd be granting them to the people with power to put in the security holes they find.
- dragonwriter 3y agoSure, but “internal bounties have fundamental problems of incentives at any scale” is a different problem than “Apple can't afford internal bounties on an adequate scale to compete with nation-state attackers”.
- jonhohle 3y agoApple uses a ton of open source libraries. They could give bounties for security issues found in public releases.
- pc86 3y agoThose countries aren't the ones using these exploits either.
- dogma1138 3y agoApples revenue isn’t much lower than Israel’s GDP and NSO isn’t really a nation state actor.
- mschuster91 3y agoNSO is reported to consist of mostly Unit 8200 staff. No way they're not deeply connected with the Israeli government.
- dogma1138 3y agoUnit 8200 is single largest Israeli military unit, their entire tech industry is filled with 82xx, 81xx and 99xx alumni. This is what happens when you have universal conscription and the intelligence corps get their pick of the brightest conscripts. It still doesn’t make them a state actor anymore than the dozen or so European malware vendors and the probably far more numerous US ones and that is before looking into the defense sector proper.
- fortran77 3y agoThis is a lie. It’s a UK owned company, part of Novalpina Capital. A division of their QCyber Group based out of Luxemburg.
- ThePowerOfFuet 3y ago[flagged]
- fortran77 3y ago> NSO Group is a subsidiary of the Q Cyber Technologies group of companies.[7] Q Cyber Technologies is the name the NSO Group uses in Israel, but the company goes by OSY Technologies in Luxembourg, and in North America, a subsidiary formerly known as Westbridge. It has operated through various other companies around the world.[18] > Owner > Novalpina Capital Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSO_Group https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSO_Group