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One of the side effect if states participate in the proliferation of offensive tools. Won't be the last time state-sponsored tools, exploits or backdoors fall into the hands of interested third parties.

I think collateral damage like that is way underrated by politicians all around the globe that call for their respective intelligence agencies to build up offensive capabilities to be able to conduct cyber warfare and whatnot.



The vulnerability is already patched, it is not a 0-day. Regardless of the leak, anyone could have reverse engineered the security patch to see how it worked.




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