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Still simplistic. "Breached" can mean a number of things, and the incentives here are very different.
by anyfoo 2y ago
Still simplistic. "Breached" can mean a number of things, and the incentives here are very different.
- walterbell 2y agoBreached = remote control of device, bypass all vendor and owner security policy, and exfiltration of non-public data.
- anyfoo 2y agoAnd that was achieved?
- walterbell 2y agoMultiple times via iOS zero days. One example, https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/dec/20/whatsapp-pegasus-spyware-nso-group-hacking https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/dec/20/whatsapp-... > NSO Group Technologies, was accused in a lawsuit by Meta’s messaging app of infecting and surveilling the phones of 1,400 people over a two-week period in May 2019 via its notorious Pegasus software. The judge.. found the company had violated state and federal US hacking laws.. was used to infiltrate not only WhatsApp but also iPhones to extract pictures, emails and texts.. victims of the hack identified by Meta were senior government officials, journalists, human rights activists, political dissidents and diplomats.
- anyfoo 2y ago5 years ago, by state level actors. How many state level actors are trying to breach the Xbox? Your original statement was “there are kernel vulnerabilities being fixed, therefore iPhones are less secure than the Xbox one”. It’s just not that simple. I can’t make any assessment about which of those are more secure without a serious look, but this isn’t it.
- ser234 2y ago“How many state level actors are trying to breach the Xbox?” The U.S. Guvmint for one: https://filesharingtalk.com/content/1654-US-government-hires-company-to-hack-into-video-game-consoles https://filesharingtalk.com/content/1654-US-government-hires...