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People have said Apple can buy companies like NSO for less than they probably spend on SEIMs in a year. But as soon as they do that there will be another startup doing the same thing.

The company (GreyShift) that broke the secure enclave had ex-apple security engineers working for them.

If you inject a lot of money into the industry I think it'll result in more people learning how to do it.

Though, the reason governments found the best exploits for the longest time wasn't by hiring geniuses, but by giving people long periods of time and freedom to do kinds of research nobody else was motivated to do.

They could certainly go out and try and hire some of the best iOS vuln researches. But if they hire the top 10 out there, then #11 gets a massive payrise to go and work for one of the spyware companies.

And if Apple is paying huge amounts of money and getting into bidding wars with all the other companies out there for vuln researches, that'll attract a load more people to start hunting.