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j0ta@lemmy.ml to Privacy@lemmy.ml · 4 years ago

She Sent Her iPhone to Apple. Repair Techs Uploaded Her Nudes to Facebook

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j0ta@lemmy.ml to Privacy@lemmy.ml · 4 years ago
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Apple paid a woman millions to prevent a lawsuit, but it could have avoided all of this if she’d just been able to repair her own phone.
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    I’m not an Apple fan either. But focusing on the correct points is important.

    • Apple security is not complete as shown by their terribly insecure repair procedure.
    • Apple regularly blames users instead of admitting mistakes.

    I agree with both of these points. However just shouting “iPhone security? LOL!” isn’t going to convince anyone because your argument is trivially dismissed. iPhones are competing with the best in class for security and this doesn’t show any flaw there.

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      https://github.com/secmob/TiYunZong-An-Exploit-Chain-to-Remotely-Root-Modern-Android-Devices/raw/master/us-20-Gong-TiYunZong-An-Exploit-Chain-to-Remotely-Root-Modern-Android-Devices.pdf

      BlackHat Pwn2Own from the past recent years disagrees. See page 5.

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        I never said that iPhones are flawless. However I consider them in a very similar security class to the Pixel. Remember that those numbers are very small and heavily biased towards what is being researched as well as other factors such as the cost of those vulnerabilities on the black market. Try looking at other metrics as well such as CVEs which are also imperfect but show that iPhones and Pixel phones offer similar levels of security. And most importantly the article that this was shared in context two doesn’t imply any level of insecurity of the device itself.

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          Can you be a little more objective, like the BlackHat Conference hackers? Or are you trying to sell me some Apple marketing?

          I refuse to buy Apple marketing. https://gist.github.com/iosecure/357e724811fe04167332ef54e736670d and https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/01/apples-hypocritical-defense-data-privacy/581680/

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