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Comment by tick_tock_tick

4 years ago

Apple seems incapable of successfully sandboxing iMessage after years of exploits. At this point I think we just have to assume they just don't care.

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skybrian  4 years ago

This doesn’t doesn’t seem like a stable fact about Apple. Their priorities can change. I expect that these recent revelations have gotten the attention of top management and they are likely to get a strong organizational response.

(I’m reminded of Google’s responses to the Snowden leak.)

smoldesu  4 years ago

You're not entirely wrong. For a proprietary, closed-source, limited-access system that Apple has complete control of, it's surprisingly vulnerable and slow to be patched.

  • tptacek  4 years ago

    It's pretty much completely wrong. Apple invests more on this problem than almost any vendor in the world, and no vendor with a comparable footprint fares meaningfully better than they do --- Google surpasses them at some problems, but vice versa. The problems we're dealing with here are basically at the frontier of software engineering and implicate not so much Apple as the entire enterprise of commercial consumer software development, no matter where it's practiced.

    It's fair to criticize Apple. But you can't reasonably argue that they DGAF.