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How would China gain access to their citizen's phones then? There's no way that they don't have some type of ability to get into any single citizen's phone. I

• Despegar 7y ago
  >How would China gain access to their citizen's phones then? There's no way that they don't have some type of ability to get into any single citizen's phone. Through literally every other part of the stack from the wireless carriers to applications like WeChat. They don't need an iOS backdoor when they have CCP officials at Tencent's offices. Most people use Android and the police just make them install an app on their smartphones, something they can't do on iOS [1]. The way to access an iOS device is with 0days. I used to see plenty of credits on iOS security updates for Chinese researchers, but China seems to have put a stop to that with the goal of hoarding them [2]. [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/02/technology/china-xinjiang-app.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/02/technology/china-xinjiang... [2] https://www.cyberscoop.com/pwn2own-chinese-researchers-360-technologies-trend-micro/ https://www.cyberscoop.com/pwn2own-chinese-researchers-360-t...