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The corruption of the interface was the most disturbing thing. It was showing the left-hand slide home screen menu offset, overlapping with other elements, with
by code_duck 4y ago
The corruption of the interface was the most disturbing thing. It was showing the left-hand slide home screen menu offset, overlapping with other elements, without any ability to interact with it. It must be some sort of memory corruption vulnerability, I assume. Apple did an update a week or two later which addressed some sort of zero day… So clearly I was wondering exactly how hacked my phone might have been. I was able to reboot and it has seems OK, but who knows.
- Operyl 4y agoApple addresses zero days and security related bugs every single update, I wouldn't get paranoid about a visual glitch on its own honestly.
- code_duck 4y agoIt prevented me from launching, switching or killing any apps or rebooting the phone. The phone was entirely unusable until I figured out how to reboot. That's more than visual. My impression is that is was memory only, but it was extremely suspicious. It’s quite possible that data was exfiltrated.
- Operyl 4y agoSimply locking up Springboard with a DoS doesn't necessarily mean your were breached on the device. It's more likely that nothing came of it, exfiltrating data would involve breaching a lot of sandboxing and we'd be seeing a lot more chatter about that honestly.
- code_duck 4y agoSure, there’s been no evidence of anything wrong since then, either with my phone or related accounts. Apple did fix a couple 0 days with more serious implications shortly after this, but it’s not as if I or a random search result website would be worth someone using a 0 day.