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Israel was just caught doing an attack where Google ads would run JavaScript looking for known hardware identifiers from telemetry data they bought. When the ads showed on a target device, they would root you. Without you even interacting with the ad.


JavaScript can root you? That's way bigger of a problem than telemetry. Do you have a source? How does that even work?




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