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Apple informs journalists Russia is targeting them with Pegasus spyware (www.businessinsider.nl)

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Russia appears to be targeting journalists with spyware known as Pegasus.
Pegasus is a "zero-click" software, hacking phones by sending texts that don't need to be opened.
The software has targeted dozens of journalists, activists, and politicians in recent years.

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[–] Ottomateeverything 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

because In real life, when users see a huge performance drop, they complain

Yeah, true, and the dead people don't get to complain, so just prioritize performance because the dead aren't complaining.

/s obviously. I don't give a fuck how much performance you gain/lose by running an exposed system. Increasing road speed limits would help people get to work faster. But more of them would be dead. Road safety comes first, convenience and speed comes second.

I could understand people having a slightly different priority list 30 years ago when performance was shit and computers were obscure. But in this day and age, we're making increases in performance 99.9% of the populace won't notice and computers literally run our lives. The priority is security.

then you have situations like Intel's Downfall, which has sizable AVX2/AVX512 performance penalties.

Yeah, exactly. Most people don't utilize AVX all that much. And those that do likely have newer machines that are unnaffected. And Intel is patching it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The point is, anything there is code speculation, virtually every single time they invent a new way to speed up performance, a new method of attack gets found. It doesnt matter if its Arm, it doesnt matter if its Apple, jt doesnt matter if its Intel, doesnt matter if its AMD, everyone has exploits as long as code speculation is a thing. If security is a severe issue, would the solution not be finding or using phones without code speculation period as as long as long as it exists, historyically speaking, its only a matter of time till an exploit exists for it.