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Companies Are Now Offering Seven Figures For Hacks That Allow Spies, Cops To Steal Chat App Messages (vice.com)
Zerodium, a startup that buys and sells hacking tools and exploits to governments around the world, announced on Monday price increases for almost everything they are looking for, such as iOS remote jailbreaks and Windows exploits. "It said it will now pay security researchers $1,000,000 for exploits in WhatsApp, iMessage, and SMS/MMS apps for all mobile operating systems," reports Motherboard. From the report: Compromising the whole iPhone, sometimes referred to as remote jailbreaking or rooting the phone, can cost $2 million or more, and usually involves a series of bugs and exploits. The price increase shows that mobile devices in general are getting more and more secure, and thus harder to hack. That means that it's becoming increasingly hard for hackers to break into iOS and Android devices. That makes the life of folks like spy agencies and police departments harder too. That's where Zerodium and other similar companies, such as Azimuth and Crowdfense, come in: they act as intermediaries between security researchers and government agencies looking for tools -- often called zero-days -- to break into targets. Before today, Zerodium was willing to pay $500,000 for WhatsApp and iMessage exploits, according to an archived version of the company's site. These new prices are in line with the market, according to Maor Shwartz, who used to run a company that acquired and sold exploits to government agencies.
Rent-free.
As soon as you patch one of these backdoors, the next update will just have a new one.
Any day that the US govâ(TM)t is shut down is a good day. Itâ(TM)s too big, too powerful, and too evil.
I hope the aforementioned companies are paying their own engineers well.
Once bounties get this high, the thought would cross the minds of many to build in a vulnerability for use later on.
Then again, I suppose the various three letter agencies with their unlimited budgets probably have an engineer or
several on the payroll already. . . .
You're saying 10-30 million Americans who pick up trash, sweep floors, sterilize instruments, calculate mortgage rates, catch criminals, process rape kits, trace stolen guns, save children from drug addict parents are evil?
You're a fucking moron. Get the fuck out of my country, don't visit, don't write. You don't fix the problems of America's overreaching government by NOT dealing with it, all this does is freeze the current policy in place and fuck up worse.
Mindless cowards who want to play Libertarian nihilist faggot games need to walk the plank. Basta, traitors. America is going to be great again - we're going to hang some fucking traitor Republican scumbags. Booya.
orange man bad
If you're conducting your secret spy business on WhatsApp and SMS, you're doing it wrong. I may not know the right way, exactly, but I think it looks more like NCIS: Los Angeles than it does WhatsApp.
Beware of the Leopard.
Bad? Objectively. Liar? Ubiquitously. Traitor? Provably. Putin? Loving every minute, you treasonous faggot.
Which would you prefer, the gallows or the firing squad? Traitors hang. Choice made.
Like Dotard and Rocket Man, at Singapore.
Elections have consequences and the more people suffer, the more they might pay some fucking attention to who they're voting for, next time. Make no mistake about it, this shutdown is because there's a big baby in the White House who is throwing a tantrum because mommy and daddy won't buy him a wall.
Consider the Kashoggi killing, which was likely a Whatsapp video call between Prince MBS and the torture team. WhatsApp is always pretend secure, but they forget who owns it, so they use it thinking its secure.
Only Skype and Whatsapp are unblocked in Saudi Arabia, and Jared Kushner has a backchannel to Prince MBS via WhatsApp.... since the henchmen of the Saudi prince would fit in with the prince, it follows that they would also be using WhatsApp rather than Skype. (I've seen claims it was Skype, but those claims don't hold water, Skype is known to be backdoored).
How else do they have both sides of a two way conversation, including video, including Kashoggi screaming as they cut him up, and know that the prince was definitely involved.
If you cut someone up alive, then its for show. If its for show its for the client. We know the client was MBS, Jared's buddie. So we know the snuff show was done live for MBS.
And the remaining questions: Why did Trump and Jared help MBS cover it up, why did Kashoggi get banned from Saudi Arabia after the critical press conference of Trump and does Jared involved in the torture/murder. i.e. how come a US reporter can be murdered with clear evidence and Trump helps conceal the murder.
I want a wall. I care nothing about the government being shut down, it doesn't affect me. IMO keep it closed down till the entire wall is funded.
10 to 30 million doing the work of 100 to 300 thousand. Yeah â" real useful.
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I've been doing computer security for over 20 years.
A million bucks might be tempting if I didn't already have a job I like, and what some would call an overinflated sense of ethics.
I think it should be fairly obvious to all that any popular software produced by an American company is going to be factory p0wned by Uncle Sam. Likewise Chinese and Russian software by their respective governments.
Don't believe the hype. If it's a mobile device, it's insecure.
Of course be sure to mark this -1 because Anti-President Trump folks don't like facts.
Even though I'm a Blue Dog Democrat, I'm sick and tired of the all the Anti-Trump crap on this website. It's about as productive as the new Democrat lead house passing legislation that will never get voted on in the Senate or signed by the President.
Take tax dollars and build a one way bridge to what you think is better country and don't come back. Otherwise, next time around get better candidates to run. BTW, I voted for Trump, I wanted to shake things up and see what happens, like my parties flip-flopping on Illegal Immigration and yes I have citations to back up such claims which people will go ahead and deny because of this source or that source. Facts are sticky things
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So they're only interested in ones for spies and cops, not just the average joe using an exploit?
these rates are looking good
Nazi homosexual recruiter RAY MORRIS pushing debunked Nazi propaganda even after corrected, #ROPE
You're not only a gullible faggot, you're a low IQ nazi pussy Ray. Your security chops are childlike at best. Literally, children know more about it than you. Riding your own hypothetical coattails goes nowhere, you fucking idiot lol.
Get fucked to pieces like your traitor Fuhrer in about 6 months.
You know, this thing?
https://constitutioncenter.org...
I am fairly certain that personal correspondence, which would be the modern equivalent of "papers" mentioned explicitly in the amendment, is something that cannot be obtained without a warrant.
That is, unless the constitution is NOT a "Living document" that gets reinterpreted to suit modern climates and courts... and only paper based correspondence is covered explicitly.
Oh, who the fuck am I kidding; The clowns are running the circus, and there are no constitutional rights anymore. Just velvet glove authoritarianism.
America, where only the government is allowed to break the law.
Seven puppies were harmed during the making of this post.
The US government can surveil me and the other 7.4 billion-odd people who aren't US citizens whenever it damn well pleases, no warrant required.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo
--Andy Finkel (J. Klass?)
and will the law enforcement dmca exempt cover this or is there to many subcontractors in the mix?
End a book, illiterate traitor bitch.
Killing Trump for his crimes will be the greatest decency this country has ever shown. Traitors hang, but Trump should burn while hanging to keep the treason stank from ruining the entire gallows. We need them clean for Don Jr and Ivanka.
Give it a rest, Comrade Wang.
Hey remember when going through someone's private messages was illegal?
Yeah it's almost like some really smart people knew how to keep people safe, thus setting up safeguards
Then we pretended electronic messages were different than physical messages because ease of access makes policing good for everyone (?)
Mommy said your tendies are ready upstairs. Don't forget to turn off the basement light!
There's a fair number of people out there with money on the level of George Soros.
It would be nice if even just one of them would spend a bunch of their money buying up all these exploits, just to put them up on a public repository and send copies to the developers of the affected software and systems.
Why is it that all the billionaires who want to change the world want to do it in all the wrong ways?
Of course they're willing to pay for WhatsApp and iMessage, but there's no need to pay for Signal because they already hand over your private keys to the NSA voluntarily, and I have proof.
If you know what to search for, you'll find it.