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Well, who cares when all they need is to use something like Pegasus to obtain full access to your phone simply by sending you a WhatsApp message (without having
by stunt 5y ago
Well, who cares when all they need is to use something like Pegasus to obtain full access to your phone simply by sending you a WhatsApp message (without having you even open the message).
Knowing how well guarded IOS is against app developers, I wonder what kind of zero-day would suddenly turn a message received in WhatsApp to full system access. I think NSO found a WhatsApp backdoor, not a zero-day bug.
- catlikesshrimp 5y agoWhatsapp is owned by facebook, not by apple. I don't think Apple wants to share a backdoor with facebook. I don't know any detail of the whatsapp vulnerability that NSO exploited.
- JBiserkov 5y agoNSO can't send you an WhatsApp message if you don't have WhatsApp on your iPhone.
- mmazing 5y agoOr compromise the device in some other way. At the risk of being cliche here's a relevant xkcd - https://xkcd.com/538/ https://xkcd.com/538/