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Being able to root the device is pretty important for security research. It's much harder to do an in-depth analysis of a system without root access. Apple pro
by iamnothere 7y ago
Being able to root the device is pretty important for security research. It's much harder to do an in-depth analysis of a system without root access.
Apple products have had plenty of bugs leading to security issues, and I'd rather make it easier for researchers to discover these.
- pdimitar 7y agoSecurity researchers aren't exactly Apple's target audience, just saying. Possibly compromising security for everybody just so 0.05% of the users can be happy is not a realistic expectation.
- fastball 7y agoExactly. A much better idea would be to have "security researcher" phones that Apple could sell to such, which would be rooted and tracked.
- iamnothere 7y agoHow could you verify that these phones run the same setup as regular phones? The only way to make companies fix bugs which may be difficult to find, expensive to fix, and potentially embarrassing is to make it easy to locate exploits on real hardware. Otherwise the only people with the resources to do this are government-backed entities like NSO Group, Vupen, etc, who somehow always ensure that exploits get into the hands of repressive governments.
- fastball 7y agoIt would literally be the same phone with the same software, but rooted.
- babypuncher 7y agoEvery iOS device gets cracked relatively quickly, there's nothing stopping security researchers from doing their work. For the vast majority of users this isn't a concern or even a good idea.