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PaperclipStrategy t1_izdtmi6 wrote

Reply to comment by 2_Spicy_2_Impeach in Apple announces plans to encrypt iCloud data on its servers, including full backups, photos and notes. by [deleted]

>"...You'd start looking at government officials and/or sell the exploit to a nation..."

maybe if your a state-actor but i recall when that U.S. pipeline management software got infected with ransomware, the russian hackers practically shit themselves when they realized the impact of their effect on international geopolitics --At least as i understood it.

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2_Spicy_2_Impeach t1_izebjr9 wrote

If you were a state sponsored, you’d never waste your time on celebrities with an exploit like that. Again, if you had an exploit like this, you could charge whatever you want. It’d eventually leak as well since you would be offering iCloud backup access to almost anyone for a fee. Even at trial for the guy at the center of this, they found it was phishing emails that got his 100+ victims.

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