• brie@programming.dev
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    3 days ago

    It was. $10M/year. After Apple patched the buffer overflow in the gif lib and introduced blastdoor, they replaced it with Pegasus 2. Apple patched it again. That’s why it’s sold as a service.

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      3 days ago

      And it’s sold as a service to nation-states. People who should be taking measures for this to never happen again are, one can say, culturally sympathetic to those buying it.

      • brie@programming.dev
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        3 days ago

        It’s available to anyone who pays. Not limited to nation states. I doesn’t concern me much: $10M is out of reach of anyone I’ll ever meet.