alt Hacker News> nice to see that Apple tried to speak accurately here.
The key word being "mercenary", which does not rule out first-party spyware.
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jmalicki • yesterday at 7:18 PM
Mercenary also excludes people do it for funsies and not getting paid.
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So in essence they
- can give away your data for free - get hacked by nation-state such as Iran - get hacked by mercenary spyware and not notice
and their statement would still be correct. Now that's an awful lot of qualifiers. Plus that's just what they say.