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> "Obviously with iOS devices having ports closed and being behind NAT, the NSA can't exploit them remotely." This is a pretty limited view of remote exploits.
by mrich 13y ago
> "Obviously with iOS devices having ports closed and being behind NAT, the NSA can't exploit them remotely."
This is a pretty limited view of remote exploits. It could easily be a browser-based exploit for example, with the payload as part of an image served by an ad, thus not requiring any open ports.
I cannot imagine the NSA waited for iCloud to get access to iPhones.
- epmatsw 13y agoBack on iOS 2 (or 1 or 3 maybe), there was a browser-based jailbreak that exploited a flaw in the iOS PDF viewer, so there's definitely precedent for such a thing. http://www.jailbreakme.com/# http://www.jailbreakme.com/#