Whenever I talk about protections for "adversarial interoperability" (allowing third parties to service, extend, improve existing products) someone will inevitably say that the legal right to mod a product is irrelevant because companies like Apple make impregnable products.
1/
1/
But when it comes to security, attacking is easier than defending. For Apple to fend off third-party app stores or other products that give its customers more rights to their property, Apple needs to be perfect. To defeat this, third parties only need to find a single error.
2/
2/
This principle keeps getting proved. A new jailbreak from the unc0ver team works on every Iphone and every version of Ios, including version 13.5, only released this week.
techcrunch.com/2020/05/23/hac…
3/
techcrunch.com/2020/05/23/hac…
3/
This is in addition to Axi0mx's "Checkm8" crack, which exploits a defect in a security component that Apple designed not to be modified after manufacture, meaning that any patch from Apple would require de/resoldering a tamper-resistant component.
arstechnica.com/information-te…
4/
arstechnica.com/information-te…
4/
Checkm8 is a forever-day bug that affects 11 years' worth of Iphone models, though not the most recent ones.
eof/
eof/
