Comment on Most Sophisticated iPhone Hack Ever Exploited Apple's Hidden Hardware Feature

morrowind@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• treadful@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I think it’s mostly just been this one hack that keeps getting reported on because of how impressive it was. Apparently people are still discovering noteworthy things about it.

  Not that there aren’t others. Software is ever-moving. This one has just been especially interesting.

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• Gigasser@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It can often be more important to inform apple users of attacks and exploits because android users aren’t often under the illusion that they’re immune from such happenings.

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  • shasta@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah I feel like safe browsing practices and digital hygiene should be taught in middle schools. That’s the age I was taught things about computers in the early 2000s, like how to use a word processor, do research, save to floppy disks, not visit shady websites, and don’t click on ads. People just assume all that malware has been scrubbed from the Internet by now, but it has not.

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    • Octopus1348@lemy.lol ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Elementary. Now people get access to the internet earlier on.

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      • shasta@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Darn whippersnappers

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  • TheRealKuni@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Power users, sure. But the average Samsung user is just as ignorant as the average Apple user.

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• Eggyhead@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Probably because this is @technology, where everyone is obsessed with apple because they would never use it.

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  • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    People here fucking haaaaate Apple. As a person with servers, a bunch of computers I’ve built myself, and an iPhone/iPad… it’s quite funny to me.

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    • pete_the_cat@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I just hate how they claim to be the best at everything and they came up with everything, even though Android users have had the same features for years. They also charge an arm and a leg for products simply because they can. They take advantage of people that know nothing about tech.

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      • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Heavily disagree when it comes to their phones and tablets. They’re top-tier lil machines with insane lifespans and they’re priced accordingly. I’m using an iPhone XS Max still—how old is that, five years? Still fully supported, original battery lasts all day.

        For tablets, I don’t even have to justify anything. No Android tablets come close.

        You might be right about computers, though—I haven’t kept up with those! I still use a 2011 MacBook Pro, just swapped the optical drive out for a solid state drive, and maxed out the RAM. That fucker was expensive originally (2.2k USD retail, but I got it for a steal cuz my old laptop got warrantied to death) but fuck me if it doesn’t still run wonderfully for being 13 years old. Doesn’t update to latest OSX though, which sucks.

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• pete_the_cat@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Android is open source so thousands of people have eyes on the source code and can find security holes. iOS (along with everything else Apple does) is closed source, so only they can review the code. This makes Linux based devices inherently more secure. Also, a lot of prominent people have iPhones so they’re the targets of attack.

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  • Octopus1348@lemy.lol ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    So theoretically, you should hear more about Android holes than iPhones since people easily see the vulnerability and try it.

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    • BlueMagma@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You would think so but what seems to happen with open source is: for every person with evil intent that sees the flaw and exploit it there is more persons with good intent that sees it and report/fix it.

      During that time, closed source have the opposite balance, less people can fix flaws, but the same amount of evil people than open source finds them and exploit them.

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      • Neon@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Let’s be real:

        Nobody of us looks at the Source-Code unless we’re paid to do so. Especially for a huge project like AOSP.

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    • pete_the_cat@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Not really, all of that happens on GitHub.

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• skeezix@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Android is compromised by design. It’s not newsworthy.

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  • irreticent@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Would you provide a reputable source please?

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  • pete_the_cat@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Troll…

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