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Comment by eptcyka

8 months ago

What do you mean by your data being protected by vast amounts of encryption? Can you verify those claims beyond trusting what Apple tells you? Isn’t the commenter above insinuating that a targeted individual can be compromised anyway?

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theshrike79  8 months ago

The amount of money you can get for a iPhone 0day confirms it.

If they were playing fast and loose with cryptography and encryption, we'd have a lot more exploits in the open.

  • eptcyka  8 months ago

    What do you mean by that? I don't think this follows at all.

    • theshrike79  8 months ago

      If iPhones had flaws in the encryption or security, they WOULD be exploited and monetised.

      A zero day remote attack on an iOS device is worth so much money that you have to be _really_ ethical as a hacker not to sell it and report it to Apple for a small reward instead.

      The last time one was deployed "publicly" was against Jeff Bezos (or his wife) - one of the top10 richest people in the world anyway. And then it was patched for everyone.

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