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How so?
You don’t need any input from the user/target. Once the malicious code reaches the device the exploit works its magic.
A lot of dragons lurking in the dark there.
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You don’t need any input from the user/target. Once the malicious code reaches the device the exploit works its magic.
An open source cellular modem firmware is long overdue, but there's no government on Earth that would be keen on allowing it to happen, the best we have is 2G/3G stuff that has been illegally leaked and reverse engineered. A lot of dragons lurking in the dark there.
Wonder what's blocking the client side. Power efficiency? No target market since cheap LTE sticks can be had for under 20€ apiece?
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On the other hand, perhaps the hardware/OS designs of iOS and Android devices are fundamentally flawed, when viewed from a security-first perspective.
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Android is an even larger attack surface when political people don't take any of the precautions you mention, which they most likely won't. The President of the United States does indeed have a specialized phone that is modified by WH staff to either be only for phone calls or only for twitter/news (which means 2 phones)[0], but they're still iPhones. As long as there's not some 0-authorization 0-click vulnerability…
Could anyone deactivate texts on an iphone or did they get a special iOS version from Apple?
Texts shouldn't be difficult, just disable on the carrier end. MDM might be able to restrict it further just in case. With iMessage you can just not sign in to an Apple ID. Or use MDM.
I really hope the blur on the picture ( https://citizenlab.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Hubbard-Ima... ) isn't hiding anything actually important because that can almost certainly be de-blurred with the right tooling.
Pedo who used to swirl his face not knowing people can unswirl.
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Known font, known range of possible characters (almost certainly ascii), and probably several blurred characters in there that we know (like the t in attachment). If the blur is differentiable per-character, it's probably reversible.
Even without automation. Just make a list of blurred alphanumerics, then match every blurred character in the picture against the character list. with some patience probably doable in a single day
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How can you possibly not escape the use of a smartphone?
Plenty of jobs these days essentially require one, be it for communication, authentication, or what have you.
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I built a redaction process for a small company once. My critical security step was rendering out the PDF as individual flat image files, then re-assembling it like a traditionally photo-copied document. That way the loss-full operation is enforced, at the cost of forcing end users to OCR unsearchable image-scan (like) PDFs.
It's the only way to be sure!
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Great rec! This is one of my favorite technical podcasts. The host does a great job getting into the technical details of the subjects while still appealing to non-techincal listeners. It's really impressive.
Subbed. Any other recos? Been looking to scratch that Reply All itch.