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> unknown supply chain attacks. Is that the case given that iPhones are manufactured in China? My tinfoil hat theory is that they find it harder to hack iPhon
by fouc 3y ago
> unknown supply chain attacks.
Is that the case given that iPhones are manufactured in China?
My tinfoil hat theory is that they find it harder to hack iPhones to monitor their government officials.
- SkyMarshal 3y agoThe hardware is made in China but not the software. So it probably depends on how much oversight of the software the CCP has, and this decision implies not enough for their comfort.
- bityard 3y agoIs it impossible for an adversary in China to modify an iPhone during manufacture in a way that Apple can't detect?
- emodendroket 3y agoMaybe they do but one could just as well apply this logic to bans on Huawei telecom equipment.
- Terretta 3y ago> My tinfoil hat theory is that they find it harder to hack iPhones to monitor their government officials. It is a fact that certain US agencies required Blackberry or Android, rather than iOS on iPhone, for this reason.
- manuelabeledo 3y agoI believe this is no longer true. iOS devices are allowed in the DoD, for example.
- bragr 3y agoI think it depends on whether the use is classified or not. I'm not aware of iPhone supporting red/black separation, not to mention a model without cameras for use in secure environments.
- manuelabeledo 3y agoI'm not aware of any consumer phone that would follow a pure red/black architecture. There are a bunch that are CNSSP-11 compliant, though: https://www.nsa.gov/Resources/Commercial-Solutions-for-Classified-Program/Components-List/ https://www.nsa.gov/Resources/Commercial-Solutions-for-Class...
- Obscurity4340 3y agoiPhones can be supervised and/or enrolled in MDM that allows for very high-granularity control of settings and logging etc
- Terretta 3y agoI was careful to use past tense, as it was a fact, but I don't know now.
- tylerthetiger 3y agoSource?
- mushbino 3y agoThey hack iPhones without Apple knowing? I really don't think that's possible.
- mushbino 3y agoOpinions like this are largely from new cold war propaganda, but also projection. The US spys on everyone everywhere. PRISM for example. Pegasus being another.
- FormerBandmate 3y agoPegasus isn’t American. Also, China has the capability to spy on everyone and their government is morally worse so of course they are. Social credit, concentration camps, etc
- mushbino 3y agoStrongly disagree. It's Israeli, but minor difference. The US has PRISM and newer operations that are just as if not more advanced. Can you show anything China has done. That's remotely close to what the US has done in Vietnam, Korea, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, Somalia, Indonesia, Panama, Grenada, Philippines, Japan, Yugoslavia, Laos, Cambodia, Guatemala, Chile, Argentina, Brazil, and the thousands of regime change operations the US has conducted? The US also incarcerates more people than any other country in the history of the world. We also have more murders by police than nearly any other country and far more than China. I can go on.
- halJordan 3y agoThat makes no sense. The Chinese don't need to hack their people, let alone their own government workers, to find out what they are saying. It what world does govt compliance worker A need to literally hack govt busybee 1 to figure out if busybee 1 is work on their govt machine?!