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sflocal said:

This is human stupidity at its finest.  The selfish, moronic, conspiracy-loving anti-vaxxers are putting people's live at risk.  They are just too stupid and ignorant to accept it.  I'm all for personal choice and keeping the government out of my body, but what's it going to take to get these people to understand that COVID is here to stay until they get vaccinated?! 

One can only hope that Darwin will take care of things, but even then... that's years down the road.

ericthehalfbee said:

DAalseth said:

An interesting tactic but I question how effective it will be. I don’t see where the suit was filed, but if it was in California, all NSO has to do is keep their operations offshore and there’s no way to enforce it. 

I do expect the battle of the press to heat up. Apple is going after NSO for enabling spying on journalists, activists, and private citizens. Expect a blizzard of reports about how Apple is trying to protect criminals, drug dealers, terrorists, and pedos. It’ll come both from NSO and from the legion of Apple Haters out there. 

Disagree.

NSO hasn’t been used yet (to my knowledge) to actually catch criminals. It’s being used by oppressive governments to track journalists or other “dissenters”.

The very nature of their exploits (expensive zero days) means they are only used on a small handful of highly valuable targets. This might also go against Apple in their lawsuit as NSO could claim 99.999% of Apple users have nothing to worry about. 

And you know this how?  Haven't we had articles about police use of this tool?  I would expect that most of their customers are police/law enforcement agencies...  There is not enough money from despots for a publicly facing company of any reasonable size to do enough business (I didn't say "public company" in the legal sense).  We just hear about the use and mis-use by the despots and their ilk.  You don't hear about the mundane use of these tools to crack organized crime, pedophile rings, traffickers, drug cartels, terrorist related criminals, etc.

blastdoor said:

Will Intel and AMD eventually dump x86 to make ARM chips instead? 
Will Intel's future mostly be as a foundry making Nuvia chips?

Interesting times!