The NSO is less of an issue to me than the fact they are finding exploits Apple isn't (assuming Apple truly isn't aware of these and/or building them in on request) and that Apple has more than enough to budget for. To me, the NSO (as evil as they are) is like a regulator who cuts through a company's "self-regulation" claims and proves that the company they are regulating is either intentionally making their own platform insecure or is at best, negligent to mitigating and being proactive in addressing obvious issues.
Apple could pay all these people and companies way more than they could ever hope to earn on the free world market to simply fuck off. They are notoriously stingy with bug bounties and constantly disillusion those who are helping to ostensibly make their platforms more secure. I view NSO in a similar light to Correllium, whom Apple has tried to shutdown (unsuccessfully).
Its like trying to blame a whistleblower rather than prosecuting the misconduct that comes to light. The energy and blame is misplaced and this lawsuit only distracts from the fact that iMessage is basically the skeleton key to access anything and everything on a modern iPhone, after all this time.
Apple could pay all these people and companies way more than they could ever hope to earn on the free world market to simply fuck off. They are notoriously stingy with bug bounties and constantly disillusion those who are helping to ostensibly make their platforms more secure. I view NSO in a similar light to Correllium, whom Apple has tried to shutdown (unsuccessfully).
Its like trying to blame a whistleblower rather than prosecuting the misconduct that comes to light. The energy and blame is misplaced and this lawsuit only distracts from the fact that iMessage is basically the skeleton key to access anything and everything on a modern iPhone, after all this time.