• dutchkimble@lemy.lol
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    15 days ago

    Anyone know was Pegasus sold as as a service or the software was sold and the user could target whoever and the number is much larger than 1400?

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      15 days ago

      It was. $10M/year. After Apple patched the buffer overflow in the gif lib and introduced blastdoor, they replaced it with Pegasus 2. Apple patched it again. That’s why it’s sold as a service.