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varispeedyesterday at 5:18 PM5 repliesview on HN

No mention of Pegasus and other software of such sort. Can latest iOS still be infected?

There is no point creating such document if elephant in the room is not addressed.


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jesseendahltoday at 3:43 AM

Apple's head of SEAR (Security Engineering & Architecture) just gave the keynote at HEXACON, a conference attended by the companies who make Pegasus such as NSO Group.

That doesn't seem like avoiding the elephant in the room to me. It seems like very much acknowledging the issue and speaking on it head-on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Du8BbJg2Pj4

wat10000yesterday at 5:35 PM

Pegasus isn't magic. It exploits security vulnerabilities just like everything else. Mitigating and fixing those vulnerabilities is a major part of this document.

gjsman-1000yesterday at 5:23 PM

Why? The obvious conclusion is that Apple is doing everything in its power to make the answer “no.”

You might as well enumerate all the viruses ever made on Windows, point to them, and then ask why Microsoft isn’t proving they’ve shut them all down yet in their documents.

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Retr0idyesterday at 5:23 PM

don't worry, they set the allow_pegasus boolean to false

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