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Re:iPhone 15 Teardown Reveals Software Lockdown by fsh on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @02:43AM (#37655308)
If the NSA wanted access to your phone, they would ask Apple to push a backdoored update. No need for a James Bond level evil maid attack.
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Re:iPhone 15 Teardown Reveals Software Lockdown by atraac on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @02:48AM (#37655355)
They don't need to ask for any backdoor, there are existing solutions already like Pegasus. It was recently used by Polish government ruling party to spy on opposition under the pretense of looking for 'Russian spies'. Considering our not-very-smart government managed to get it, I can bet people who are actually qualified can do much more already.
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Re:iPhone 15 Teardown Reveals Software Lockdown by Thorrez on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @02:50AM (#37655378)
Didn't the FBI ask Apple to do that already and Apple refused?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple%E2%80%93FBI_encryption_d...

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Re:iPhone 15 Teardown Reveals Software Lockdown by ChrisRR on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @04:02AM (#37655979)
Well those are the ones we hear about. I think there's a lot of state-level spying in many software and hardware devices, but of course we don't hear about it
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Re:iPhone 15 Teardown Reveals Software Lockdown by Thorrez on Wednesday September 27, 2023 @01:30AM (#37670582)
Sure there's a lot of state-level spying. NSO Group et al. That doesn't mean Apple is complicit.
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Re:iPhone 15 Teardown Reveals Software Lockdown by mavhc on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @03:22AM (#37655664)
No need to ask, just get a job at Apple, same as every major company
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