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Curious why an iPhone been susceptible to this type of hack before?

• bee_rider 4y ago
  I think you mean: > Curious why an iPhone hasn't been susceptible to this type of hack before? The answer is probably, "it's complicated." These sort of hardware hacks are quite clever, and typically depend on using chips in unintended ways -- I mean most circuits will have some undefined behavior if you start shorting parts! There are lots of reasons an iPhone might not get a widely popularized exploit like this. Firstly it might be low-priority -- iPhones are general purpose computing devices, so there are usually software bugs for people who want to root their iPhones. Second, it might legitimately be more difficult. Apple has lots of experience in hardware, their circuits might be more robust. And iPhones are quite tightly integrated, it might be hard to sort out which parts you need to short when everything is on a handful of chips.