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A Grad Student Found Spyware That Could Control Anybody’s iPhone

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Re: A Grad Student Found Spyware That Could Control Anybody’s iPhone

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Post by LiveOverflow » Mon, Dec 05, 2016, 3:48 PM UTC

tonyplee wrote: post #17

LiveOverflow wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

there you go: http://info.lookout.com/rs/051-ESQ-475/images/lookout-pegasu...

If Android/IOS can be modified such that all apps are always place under docker style container/VM, would it help?

a kernel exploit doesn't help you much with a docker style container. Also docker is not a VM. And iOS/Android are already way better with sandboxing than our desktop environments.

Re: A Grad Student Found Spyware That Could Control Anybody’s iPhone

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Post by tonyplee » Mon, Dec 05, 2016, 5:26 PM UTC

LiveOverflow wrote: post #21

tonyplee wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If Android/IOS can be modified such that all apps are always place under docker style container/VM, would it help?

a kernel exploit doesn't help you much with a docker style container. Also docker is not a VM. And iOS/Android are already way better with sandboxing than our desktop environments.

For Kernel exploit, probably be true.

If one becomes root in a docker container, the worst damage it can do is to that container's files. That is better the current "sandboxing" in iOS/Android setup, true?

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