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Ask HN: Can anyone remotely blow up my iPhone and kill me in the USA?
- xenospn 2y agoDid you, by chance, fire a rocket into the Middle East recently? If not, I’d say chances are slim. But never zero!
- illuminant 2y ago[flagged]
- anon115 2y agonope i love everyone
- JohnFen 2y agoNot unless they managed to pack explosives into it.
- LinuxBender 2y agoAnd never scanned by TSA, not that they would always catch it. They will likely pay much more attention to detail now either way.
- noashavit 2y agowhat's your number? lol
- anon115 2y agoXDDDDDDDDDDD
- proc0 2y agoI wouldn't be asking this question unless you want to be on a list.
- h2odragon 2y agoProlly not: only Apple and Authorized Partners are supposed to access those functions.
- illuminant 2y agoAn unknown exploit that causes your battery to overheat in just the right circumstance (active sensory conditions met), not inconscievable. I think our society is set to implode due to our lack of awareness and incompetents. Relying upon others to keep you safe is a form of incompetence. Explore open source hardware. Go solar punk. Keep your dumb phone and your smart pad separate physical devices, which proxy. Good luck staying safe!
- JohnFen 2y ago> An unknown exploit that causes your battery to overheat in just the right circumstance (active sensory conditions met), not inconscievable. It's not inconceivable, but it is extraordinarily unlikely (and even harder to engineer). Even in critical conditions, batteries are extremely unlikely to actually explode. Burst into flames, sure, if there's physical damage or the battery protection circuitry was bypassed. Explode? Not really.
- illuminant 2y agoYour completely off. Iphones had that wifi/Bluetooth transceiver bug THE WHOLE TIME FOR OVER TEN YEARS A PRIMITIVE EXPLOIT ALLOWED SUB-SYSTEM (pre- kernel) REMOTE ACCESS. Your bases do not belong to themselves. Think proactively, not as fodder.
- illuminant 2y agoExploding at high altitude? buff
- illuminant 2y agoAnd not to carry on, though did you miss the recent youtube scroll of the battery fire in China? You speak with confidence to yesterday's troubles that were not so far away. Your confidence is your undermining, Man.
- talldayo 2y agoA battery fire is not an explosion. Thermal runaway can be detected by the user long before their phone bursts into flame; the battery cell will become extremely hot and inflate to the point your device breaks before ignition. Most people will notice minutes in advance and dispose of/distance themselves from their handset entirely.
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- bucket3141 2y ago[dead]
- jfengel 2y agoIn the USA, if somebody wants you dead, they'll just shoot you. Or put a bomb in your car. Going through the effort of compromising a supply chain and creating fake devices with explosives is way too much work. You're a very soft target. Getting to you is easy. Israel used such a complicated way to get at its enemies because their targets are harder. They are militants at war. It's get to get physically close to them, and they are on the lookout for assassination attempts. If for some reason they felt compelled to get at you through your device that way, it wouldn't be a phone. Those are too densely packed to put explosives inside and still function as you expect. They can't get to your specific phone before it's sold to you. But if you're worried about all the ways somebody could kill you, you're completely out of luck. If somebody really wanted you dead, you'd be dead.