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Re:NSO developed 3 new ways to hack iPhones, Citizen Lab says by naturalpb on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @03:49PM (#35619095)
I'd suggest turning it on and seeing if you can live with it. Some issues that I've had:

1.) FaceTime calls from people not in your recent calls will be blocked with a silent notification. Sometimes I don't see it for hours

2.) Incoming iMessages will be stripped of Live Photos and document attachments

3.) Using Starbucks in a browser did not work until I disabled Lockdown Mode in Safari for the domain. Fortunately these exceptions are easy to make and persist

I'm not a target for state-sponsored attacks but will generally trade usability for security when reasonable.

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Re:NSO developed 3 new ways to hack iPhones, Citizen Lab says by olliej on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @04:51PM (#35619930)
Losing Live Photos sounds like a feature to me :)

(3) is weird. Conceivably it’s using wasm (I recall many years ago wasm had no interpreter mode, no idea of current state), or webgl (which seems plausibly like something that would be blocked)

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Re:NSO developed 3 new ways to hack iPhones, Citizen Lab says by kmeisthax on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @04:59PM (#35620065)
Microsoft Edge's Lockdown Mode equivalent ships with a WASM interpreter called DrumBrake: https://microsoftedge.github.io/edgevr/posts/Introducing-Enh...
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Re:NSO developed 3 new ways to hack iPhones, Citizen Lab says by olliej on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @09:23PM (#35623077)
Yeah sorry I meant to say "wasm in JSC" (which is the only wasm implementation I was ever aware of the technical details for), but was typing on my phone and apparently missed that fairly critical piece of information. Alas it's too late to correct my comment :-/
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