A highly sophisticated set of iPhone hijacking techniques has likely infected tens of thousands of phones or more. Clues suggest it was originally built for the US government.

Archived version: https://archive.is/20260303225001/https://www.wired.com/story/coruna-iphone-hacking-toolkit-us-government/

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[–] 33 points 8 months ago

Its almost as if every screaming that this would happen, knew what would happen if back doors were baked into software.

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  • [–] 18 points 8 months ago

    Didn't see that coming!

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  • [–] 11 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    I’d say this is good because it forces them to close this loophole, but they’ll have a new one.

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    [–] 15 points 8 months ago

    Which is why making a backend access for the government was always a bad idea. This happened without a backdoor... Now imagine if there was one.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    If only someone had warned them.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    I trust most foreign governments more than the US government though...

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    [–] 8 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    In entirely unrelated news Graphine OS is releasing natively on Motorola.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago

    I’m not sure that makes me any less comfortable than it being in the hands of the US government.

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    [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    Eternal blue all over again.

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    [–] 2 points 8 months ago