> Obfuscation doesn't make reverse engineering impossible, only a little more difficult. Sometimes it works pretty well. It's easy money to wager the community

> Obfuscation doesn't make reverse engineering impossible, only a little more difficult. Sometimes it works pretty well. It's easy money to wager the community doesn't fully understand iOS from a reverse-engineered best-guess. Especially if their adversary is a multi-trillion dollar company who anticipates reverse engineers. > Does what exactly? Violate their venerable "Commitment to Privacy". > the original claim was "Apple can remotely execute any code they want on your phone at any time." It is undeniably feasible, yes. They control the modem, have complete ring-zero knowledge and can send arbitrary data to and from your device. That qualifies pretty much everything needed for remote code execution. If they send data to the iPhone that exploits a decoding bug like NSO Group, then feasibly yes you could execute arbitrary programs on the device, using an unmodified OS image. Nevermind just a regularly installed backdoor. > Which you claim is impossible to know forever, making your belief totally unfalsifiable. How convenient. I've been wrong before! Let's both hope I've got their character wrong and we get to see the truth someday. Until then we're squabbling over unknowns. It's not my habit to put faith into the unknown, but to each their own.