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Seems like a reasonable guess, but I still don't see where the widespread capability for hijacking the phone would come from. For that there would seem to be a
by TetOn 17y ago
Seems like a reasonable guess, but I still don't see where the widespread capability for hijacking the phone would come from. For that there would seem to be a requirement to launch and concurrently run an application permanently...and, unless I'm missing something, such an approach is inherently quite difficult and (intentionally) limited on the current iPhone OS.
- antonovka 17y agoThe phone is perfectly capable of running background processes -- it really is just Darwin running on a small ARM device. The default sandbox does not permit calls to fork/exec, but there's no guarantee that the SMS application runs in that sandbox, or that an attacker can't find a way to escape the sandbox.
- jrnkntl 17y agoWell, then 'sandbox' is quite the wrong term for it.