> Two days after receiving the Apple threat notification, Gibson contacted a forensic expert with extensive experience investigating spyware attacks.
Surely as a professional "exploit developer", Gibson himself should have been about as expert at this particular niche as any human being on the planet already.
I mean, sure, absolutely he should have called in his friends in the community and gotten more eyes on the device. But the way that's written it sounds like he took it into the local Genius Bar.
It also, in context, feels a little obfuscatory. Like he's trying to flag the involvement of senior folks who he can't name.
> Two days after receiving the Apple threat notification, Gibson contacted a forensic expert with extensive experience investigating spyware attacks.
Surely as a professional "exploit developer", Gibson himself should have been about as expert at this particular niche as any human being on the planet already.
I mean, sure, absolutely he should have called in his friends in the community and gotten more eyes on the device. But the way that's written it sounds like he took it into the local Genius Bar.
It also, in context, feels a little obfuscatory. Like he's trying to flag the involvement of senior folks who he can't name.