[lilyball]

Interesting that the page defines "sensitive data" as data "from Contacts, Mail, Messages, Notes, Photos, and real-time or historical precise location data — or similar user data — that would normally be prevented by the system." Notably missing is access to the microphone or camera.

[bredren]

I'm very surprised that Apple did not find this fell under the "or similar user data."

>The top payouts in each category are reserved for high quality reports and are meant to reflect significant effort, and as such are applicable to issues that impact all or most Apple platforms

It seems like the researcher put in significant effort, the demonstration was gold plated, or comparable exploits require far greater amounts of time and work to uncover.

The platform coverage seems broad enough to tick that box.

I would be very interested to read the internal report on how the $7k bounty figure was arrived at.