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Its also pretty dreadful. You can literally no longer trust any flat surface you may place your iPhone onto - in the library, at the store, in public, etc. Al
by boffinAudio 3y ago
Its also pretty dreadful. You can literally no longer trust any flat surface you may place your iPhone onto - in the library, at the store, in public, etc.
All it will take is for this mechanism to be cracked, and we have lost.
- gjsman-1000 3y agoNo. Apple updates are digitally signed by Apple with a key only they possess. This is also why jailbreaking an iPhone is so difficult. Nobody else has that key, so the best you can do is find a bug in something Apple approved and try to gain root with it. There hasn’t been one of those in… years… and as for one that will allow an unsigned persistent update? Not since iOS 9. Almost a decade ago. Nobody has found a persistent jailbreak since. The last true chip exploit, which Apple cannot patch, was with the A10 Fusion seven years ago. It also required a USB cable, a Mac to inject the payload, and you had (and have) to connect the phone to the Mac every time you reboot it because it can’t persist itself.
- boffinAudio 3y ago> signed by Apple with a key only they possess. Oh, so its okay as long as we trust Apple to tell us when their key is stolen...
- gjsman-1000 3y agoThat’s literally how every secure mobile phone works. Same for Samsung, same for Pixel, same for GrapheneOS.
- mensetmanusman 3y agoEverything secure requires a key of some abstraction.
- mixdup 3y agoI mean if you don't have that trust you shouldn't use an Apple device at all
- bdavbdav 3y agoYeah if that’s gone and we don’t know it, we’re all a bit screwed.
- doublerabbit 3y agoIt is still however an attack vector.
- callalex 3y agoPresumably this function would be disabled after the phone is unboxed and set up for the first time… Phones have NFC readers so your statement is already true if you take paranoia to delusional levels.