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Interesting, but not entirely sure this is a real issue at the moment.

Also noting, isn't Forbes magazine now owned by Chinese?

Big, big potential conflict there.

1 posted on 08/12/2019 5:17:39 PM PDT by cba123
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https://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2019/08/10/apple-iphone-ipad-security-warning-ios-12-ios13-iphone-xs-max-xr/amp/


2 posted on 08/12/2019 5:19:30 PM PDT by cba123 ( Toi la nguoi My. Toi bay gio o Viet Nam.)
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Ping.


3 posted on 08/12/2019 5:19:44 PM PDT by TADSLOS (You know why you can enjoy a day at the Zoo? Because walls work.)
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later goes on to say not vulnerable right now, could be in the future

How convenient to mention several paragraphs in after the hysteria and click bait.

4 posted on 08/12/2019 5:22:33 PM PDT by ctdonath2 (Specialization is for insects.)
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Swordmaker and Rush hardest hit.


5 posted on 08/12/2019 5:22:52 PM PDT by MountainWalker
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Also noting, isn't Forbes magazine now owned by Chinese?

Don't know about Forbes, but Apple components are made in China. So they probably contain the best features that the People's Liberation Army can devise.

9 posted on 08/12/2019 5:36:14 PM PDT by PAR35
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They can hack my iPhone all they want. I don’t use it for anything other than making a rare phone call. I hate the damn thing, and would never access anything important on it. I don’t even know how people can play games, or watch TV/movies on them.


11 posted on 08/12/2019 5:47:42 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
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“Exposed?”

Phone tech sites had reverse engineered iPhones a decade ago, and warned about this.

The battery issue wasn’t just now discovered.
Rather, they did it to enough people that they reached a tipping point and now the customer base is paying attention.

Apple never had any super secret unduplicatable technology which other people couldn’t and didn’t analyze accurately.


12 posted on 08/12/2019 5:48:55 PM PDT by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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I do samsung, not an apple fanboi.

CC


14 posted on 08/12/2019 5:49:58 PM PDT by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV)
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To: cba123; ~Kim4VRWC's~; 1234; 5thGenTexan; AbolishCSEU; Abundy; Action-America; acoulterfan; ...
Forbes FUD article about a long closed vulnerability in iOS that required physical access to a users UNLOCKED iOS device to be able to exploit it. Absolutely nothing to see here except a major magazine’s opening salvo in the early weeks of FUD SEASON! —PING!


FORBES FUD FOR APPLE FUD SEASON
PING!

If you want on or off the Apple/Mac/iOS Ping List, Freepmail me.

15 posted on 08/12/2019 6:07:21 PM PDT by Swordmaker (My pistol self-identifies as an iPad, so you must accept it in gun-free zones, you hoplaphobe bigot!)
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The Forbes article pushes this FUD howler from last month as well:

After all, just last month six flaws were found in iMessage which allowed hackers to read your files from anywhere and one of them remains unpatched to this day.

That iMessage vulnerability ONLY permitted exposure of some portions of images which were limited to any images the user had messaged recently to the current addressee of the iMessage the user was currently sending. It would also reveal the phone number of the of the user, but that’s already sent in the clear with any messaging system for the use of the carrier. It did NOT allow access to any texts, other data, or anything else on the device. . . Even the text currently being sent. In addition, it could not be exploited “from anywhere” but only from a local exploit where the iMessage was being sent over a compromised WIFI signal where the hacker was sharing the WIFI with the target and had to know the target was sending an iMessage. This was just more FUD.

Apple had already closed these vulnerabilities when they were announced. The unpatched vulnerability requires physical possession of an unlocked device. Not a serious vulnerability capable of ad hoc exploitation.

SHEESH! Talk about FUD Loading their article.

16 posted on 08/12/2019 6:33:24 PM PDT by Swordmaker (My pistol self-identifies as an iPad, so you must accept it in gun-free zones, you hoplaphobe bigot!)
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Conservatives buy Apple. Apple supports the democrats with lots of money.


17 posted on 08/12/2019 6:33:30 PM PDT by Revel
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I warned people here about “Face ID”. I notice Apple has stopped advertising it. I assume you can’t continue to purchase anything with it(?)

Which was always the problem. Digital DNA as verification. It’s not like a credit card, when if compromised, you can shut down and replace. Once your digital signature is compromised you have no recourse. Do not use “finger print” unlock phone features. Only use a PIN.


28 posted on 08/12/2019 7:33:59 PM PDT by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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Old legacy bug...How many AppStore apps still support iOS13?

It was one of the more stable releases in the last decade, but Apple split 14 into iPadOS and iOS specifically for deprecating 'that which has come before', and it worked.

51 posted on 03/19/2022 1:11:26 PM PDT by StAnDeliver (Each of you have at least 1 of these in your 401k: Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca, J&J, Merck and GSK)
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