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The iPhone is built to be resistant to physical attacks, such as decapping chips or inserting compromised chips. It's an advertised, first class feature that si
by dymk 4y ago
The iPhone is built to be resistant to physical attacks, such as decapping chips or inserting compromised chips. It's an advertised, first class feature that simply having the iPhone shouldn't give you access to its contents or let you circumvent its security measures.
This is different than a Starlink base station. Base stations aren't built to be hardened against a physical attacks, and are rather intended to be untrusted links to the satellites.
So it's kind of in a grey area, but I would also not consider this a vulnerability of the Starlink base station itself, in the same way that rooting an iPhone with physical access would be a vulnerability.
- o_1 4y agoHow many versions of the iPhone were required to become resistant to jailbreak. SpaceX should have a leg up on the sins of the past, but its an entirely different concept / product. The security improvements are on a curve of maturity, I imagine software and platform management will mitigate this until hardware updates are released. I will say Starlink customers shouldn't have to pay exorbant upgrade costs due to security vulnerabilities in past hardware. That is an ethical boundary SpaceX must not cross.