On Jan 23, 2020, at 10:01 AM, John Robinson <[email protected]> wrote:
> If Bezos had been using Apple’s Mail, could this same thing have happened? > > If so, why hasn’t it happened to tens of thousands of us prior to now, lots > of high profile folks use the iPhone, from The President to most of the > Hollywood types, business leaders that the competition would love to learn of > company trade secrets. This Twitter thread <https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1220028653909823488.html> give some more background. (Look around #15.) The actual crack was accomplished using Israeli-developed spyware delivered as an attachment to a WhatsApp message. I suspect there are equally effective tools for use with Apple's mail. My feeling about such things is that I do not implicitly trust Apple (or any other company) to have produced impregnable software. iOS is surely more secure than Android, but any software as complex as iOS inevitably has cracks large enough to crawl through—especially when you have the resources of a government to look for them. Just last month Google’s security team pointed out more than a dozen holes in Safari <https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2020/01/22/apple-confirms-awkward-security-flaw-new-google-report-exposes-rival-tech/#43ad554d290c>. (Google has the resources of a government.) And then there’s the boot ROM exploit <https://www.theverge.com/2019/9/27/20886835/iphone-exploit-checkm8-axi0mx-security-flaw-vunerability-jailbreak-permanent-bootrom-ios> that can’t be fixed. We don’t know what the NSA has because they don’t tell us, but I’m pretty sure they’ve got their own tricks. L^2 ---- Lee Larson [email protected] In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. — Napoleon Bonaparte
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