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Good call-out, and it's also nice to see that Apple tried to speak accurately here.

• sgbeal 7mo ago
  > nice to see that Apple tried to speak accurately here. The key word being "mercenary", which does not rule out first-party spyware.
  • stephbook 7mo ago
    So in essence they - can give away your data for free - get hacked by nation-state such as Iran - get hacked by mercenary spyware and not notice and their statement would still be correct. Now that's an awful lot of qualifiers. Plus that's just what they say.
  • jmalicki 7mo ago
    Mercenary also excludes people do it for funsies and not getting paid.
    • mulmen 7mo ago
      Does it also exclude researchers?
      • calciphus 7mo ago
        Only if they keep refusing to pay bug bounties!
  • xingped 7mo ago
    The wording is weird enough that I have to agree. This is the first time I've ever heard spyware segmented using "mercenary" as a qualifier, which is just insanely suspicious.