alt Hacker NewsWhenever I point out that Apple's "security by obscurity" strategy is a complete failure I get downvotes.
Person suspecting their iPhone has been hacked has no way to check it. Apple only offer cope mechanism in form of "lockdown mode", which likely can be bypassed just as well.
This situation shows that Apple devices are not secure and liability.
They'll likely protect your grandma from getting low effort malware, but if you are a CEO - buy something else.
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What do you mean by "security by obscurity"? What's your comparand that doesn't have the same software defects iPhone-targeting CNE is exploiting?
Whenever I point out that Apple's "security by obscurity" strategy is a complete failure I get downvotes.
Maybe because you apparently don’t know what “security by obscurity” means? Regardless, what’s your recommendation for “buy something else”?
> A person suspecting their iPhone has been hacked has no way to check it. Apple only offers a cope mechanism in the form of "lockdown mode", which likely can be bypassed just as well.
In the past, Apple alerted users (journalists, political activists, dissidents) when a "state-level actor" attempted to hack their iPhones [1].
Apparently, the FBI couldn't get past Lockdown Mode: FBI stymied by Apple’s Lockdown Mode after seizing journalist’s iPhone [2]"
And don't forget about Memory Integrity Enforcement (MIE) that debuted on iPhone 17 and iPhone Air [3]:
MIE is described as the industry's first always-on, comprehensive memory safety protection, built on the Enhanced Memory Tagging Extension (EMTE) in synchronous mode, combined with secure typed allocators and tag confidentiality protections.
[1]: https://www.sentinelone.com/blog/so-state-sponsored-attacker...
[2]: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/fbi-stymied-by-a...
[3]: https://security.apple.com/blog/memory-integrity-enforcement