A cleverly - named security company has a clever musical theme . Zerodiumwill pay you $ 1 millionif you find a zero - day exploit in iOS 9 . Then , if history is any indicator , it will turn around and sell that intelligence to a despotic regime like the NSA .
Chaouki Bekrar , the founder of Zerodium , is infamous for institute the French hacking firm Vupen – which specialize in buy up zero - day exploits and selling them to governments . wire ’s Andy Greenbergreports :
Bekrar ’s past customers for such undisclosed hacking technique haveincluded the NSAas well as other NATO land and “ NATO partners ” that Bekrar declines to name . Bekrar declined to identify any of Zerodium ’s potential customer , but he has antecedently revealed that they ’re special to sure government agencies .
It gets worse :
ACLU lead technologist Chris Soghoian has called Bekrar a “ modern - Clarence Day merchant of decease , ” selling “ the bullet train for cyber-terrorism . ” After a sales agreement , Soghoian fence , Vupen turns a unsighted heart to where its effort cease up and whether repressive regimes might be using them to snoop on citizen .
And that sucks . However , it sounds rather profitable , and $ 1 million for a zero - day vulnerability is a record high toll that many hackers will surely chase . Who knows who will ultimately exploit it – but when they do , at least a couple the great unwashed will get fat .
[ cable ]
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