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This is very different from ActiveX. ActiveX had hundreds of exploits widely available freely on the dark parts of usenet, and exploited by every proverbial s
by seanhunter 3y ago
This is very different from ActiveX. ActiveX had hundreds of exploits widely available freely on the dark parts of usenet, and exploited by every proverbial scriptkiddie in a basement against a swath of computers across the world.
iMessage has had a handful of exploits which are licensed out for extortionate amounts by people like NSO to a very small number of scummy nationstate threat actors in extremely targetted but very high-threat attacks on very high-profile targets.
- bt1a 3y agoYou don't know how many exploits iMessage has.
- saberience 3y agoHow many does it have?
- oasisaimlessly 3y agoAll that's different now is that the script kiddies have grown up.
- seanhunter 3y agoI really don't think that's true - the state of appsec and security awareness in general has really improved a lot, and all of the major platforms (windows included) are much much more secure now by default than in the activeX era. It's definitely not the case that anyone can just throw together an iPhone zeroday, which is why the price of these exploits is so much higher.
- CommitSyn 3y agoNot today, anyway. Otherwise we'd still have jailbreaks, which were zero-day exploits used knowingly and non-maliciously. Apple hired at least a few of the best jailbreakers.