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Re:About the security content of iOS 15.4.1 and iPadOS 15.4.1 by thetinguy on Friday April 01, 2022 @10:02AM (#30878166)
> Sounds to me like a terrible OS design, to have such arbitrary things as video decoding, require a kernel extension

Why?

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Re:About the security content of iOS 15.4.1 and iPadOS 15.4.1 by LeoNatan25 on Friday April 01, 2022 @11:36AM (#30879259)
For exactly the reason they have to patch it. For exactly the same reason they are now disallowing custom kernel extensions. Apple engineers are not perfect machines, writing perfect code without issues. And so, here we are. Years in the wild exploit in a kernel extension for decoding h264. Ridiculous.
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