A highly sophisticated set of iPhone hijacking techniques has likely infected tens of thousands of phones or more. Clues suggest it was originally built for the US government.
  • T00l_shed@lemmy.worldEnglish
    31·
    2 days ago

    Its almost as if every screaming that this would happen, knew what would happen if back doors were baked into software.

  • panda_abyssEnglish
    11·
    2 days ago

    I’d say this is good because it forces them to close this loophole, but they’ll have a new one.

    • inari@piefed.zipEnglish
      12·
      2 days ago

      Can you imagine the amount of 0-days these agencies must be sitting on top of?

      • panda_abyssEnglish
        7·
        2 days ago

        Even if they don’t, they can easily add some.

        Ohhh nooo it looks like we have a buffer overflow in <extremely convoluted kernel module with highly specific trigger>!