longpath

It’s a very sad thing when the state prosecutes the victim of an extortion racket.

bonobob said:

Thanks to the author for not including any info on how to detect if one is compromised.  That's certainly not something anyone here would care about.

The article has an easily missed link (it took me three passes, while looking for it) to the researcher’s article, which finally gets around to those details:

https://redcanary.com/blog/clipping-silver-sparrows-wings/

Hopefully, Apple’s internal security researchers will figure out how to trigger the malware’s self destruct and add that function into a near future security update.

Zuckerberg’s antics is more than justification for ceasing to use any of the systems he has control over. While I miss some folks on the periphery of my network, staying connected with them wasn’t worth the exposure to Zuckerberg and his megalomania.

Yet Facebook continues to claim to be an impartial platform and not a publisher....

From the article, “We're a mum's website," she said. "We are small and niche. This is not fair. I think they are just bullies. They are shooting themselves in the foot.”

Her opinion, that they are just bullies, seems quite on target regarding Facebook and Zuckerberg.

Also, this collectivist nonsense of lumping media companies like Facebook into the same category as Apple, under the term “Big Tech” strikes me as increasingly perverse. I certainly recognize the classic divide and conquer approach to politics that is common in any Democracy or Democratic Republic; but the lumping together of antagonistic entities still strikes me as perverse.