Reply to post: riddle me this

Update your iPhones, iPads right now – govt spy tools exploit vulns

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Megaphone

riddle me this

stagefright

quadroot

Pegasus

two of these get all the press coverage and have never been actively eploited in the wild, the other is without a doubt the most severe vulrability ever to have hit mobiles, and whilst now patched on some devices, the amount of data gathered by it is unknown.

Seems to me like when its Apple, problems are dowplayed (22 comments), when it's Android, even if its only a theoritical exploit, it's headline news for weeks.

The press need to start responsible reporting. BBC are the worst, they are in damage limitation mode on this, but the last few Android theoritical exploits have been major smug-fud mode.

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