On Dark Matter, iPads, and trucksPCs are like trucks: They're more powerful, but with that power comes the potential for exploits. As such, iOS may be the safer route for most users.
Like a lot of others, I immediately clicked the link when WikiLeaks tweeted about the "Dark Matter dump" filled with information used by the CIA to exploit Macs and older iOS devices.
I consider myself a pretty good armchair infosec nerd, which is to say: I really dig reading what the real infosec nerds have to say about these dumps. As a healthy skeptic, I have my own thoughts on WikiLeaks and their quest for attention, but I don't think they are telling tales with the whole Vault 7 CIA master spy thing. Stretching things a bit as a hook to get more clicks maybe, but not that fake news I keep hearing about. In general, I like to click through and do my own investigation into it all, to make up my own mind.
After reading through this latest dump — and the infosec community's reaction — I came to a pretty simple ...
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On Dark Matter, iPads, and trucks
