How a few legitimate app developers threaten the entire Android userbase (Ars Technica)

Posted Oct 19, 2015 6:44 UTC (Mon) by zblaxell (subscriber, #26385)
In reply to: How a few legitimate app developers threaten the entire Android userbase (Ars Technica) by dlang
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There is significant value even in the mere collection, maintenance, and testing of the exploits. Black hats can focus their time and effort on their malicious payloads instead of building their own delivery vehicles.

That's still a net advantage for black hats even if the total number of theoretically available vulnerabilities remains constant.