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by eviks 6 hours ago
> before it was ever used.

But since this is never known, does the user need to know?

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Remember that they have a great deal of telemetry around things like crashes and work with groups like Citizen Lab for certain high-risk users. You can’t prove that something was never used in a perfectly targeted and concealed attack but it’s likely they can say it wasn’t used outside of such contexts, and once you’re at the level of things like “the Mossad deployed an exploit after configuring the local cell tower to drop external network access before crash reporter could phone home” user notifications in the release notes aren’t effective anyway.