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Re:iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus by c0pium on Tuesday September 12, 2023 @10:49PM (#37491630)
In a word, yes. The code execution CVEs, especially for iOS which is the subject here, all start with <=2014. There has been a huge amount of work since then (accelerated by the research device program).

It’s a favorite boogeyman of the “nation state actors are under your bed” crowd. Which is stupid because they all recommend avoiding public charging and would they be doing that if they were siting on high-quality exploits?

There’s a reason NSO doesn’t target USB, and it’s not because they enjoy creating VMs in the image decoder.

Re:iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus by lucideer on Wednesday September 13, 2023 @06:31AM (#37494867)
Juice jacking tends to use HID emulation - that's feature abuse, not CVE exploitation.

The point is it isn't viable at any scale - nation states advise avoiding public charging because employees of companies they subcontract have been individually targetted. They're not going to be doing any indiscriminate mass exploitation of the general public with it though.

Re:iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus by c0pium on Saturday September 16, 2023 @01:12AM (#37532223)
That’s absurd, no it doesn’t. It refers to a combination of the 2011 defcon demo of eliciting a device to sync data by default and a fever-dream of getting code execution by abusing the USB stack.

You’re thinking of BadUSB or OMGCable.

1) which is a totally different attack 2) not especially applicable to smartphones 3) very much a thing that happens in real life (I have responded to incidents where one was used)

Lastly, there are plenty of CVEs issued for “feature abuse”, that’s a meaningless distinction.

Re:iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus by epcoa on Wednesday September 13, 2023 @09:15AM (#37496330)
> Which is stupid because they all recommend avoiding public charging and would they be doing that if they were siting on high-quality exploits?

Umm. Yes? I think this supports the opposite point than the one you’re trying to make. Apparently you’re too ignorant to grasp that.