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astrange on April 13, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Substack Notes Launched

Strange lack of detail there. What was the actual point of exposure? I wonder if that was a latent security issue that wasn't actually exploited.

They did have problems like state actors getting spies hired and leaking data directly of course.

brigandish on April 14, 2023 [–]

I would hazard that they weren’t in a position to know or be sure, given the whistleblower’s revelations, but also that they wouldn’t be publicising random bugs from their bug tracker without reason.

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