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Re:'Karma': A hack used by the UAE to break into iPhones of ... by bigiain on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @05:47PM (#19040425)
yeah, but the Australian Government is busy passing laws to require companies like Apple to do something pretty much exactly like this.

(And in my mind at least, those laws are without doubt part of a coordinated five eyes security/law-enforcement campaign to push those kinds of laws through everywhere: "Look, it works in Australia!" the Canadians/UK/NZ/US will say...)

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Re:'Karma': A hack used by the UAE to break into iPhones of ... by cronix on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @05:55PM (#19040487)
That's precisely the GP's point.
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Re:'Karma': A hack used by the UAE to break into iPhones of ... by bigiain on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @09:14PM (#19041687)
Yeah. Right now, nobody (credible) is accusing Apple of enabling this kind of exploit.

If Apple are still selling hardware in Australia in 12 months time, the suspicion will _have_ to be that they have enabled something similar enough to this to be considered untrustworthy... (And not just Apple, any manufacturer or software company doing business in Australia...)

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