Comment on Most Sophisticated iPhone Hack Ever Exploited Apple's Hidden Hardware Feature
pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 9 months agoAndroid 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.
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.
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.
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.
pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Not really, all of that happens on GitHub.