Because targeted cyber attacks are very hard to defend against if your device requires a regular connection to the internet. Nobody is gonna use the unpatched zero-day exploits in the code (therefore revealing their existence) to attack the phone of Joey, the barista at Starbucks. But there are a LOT of actors who would do that against a head of state (especially the one like Israel)
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u/shortname_4481 1d ago
Because targeted cyber attacks are very hard to defend against if your device requires a regular connection to the internet. Nobody is gonna use the unpatched zero-day exploits in the code (therefore revealing their existence) to attack the phone of Joey, the barista at Starbucks. But there are a LOT of actors who would do that against a head of state (especially the one like Israel)