stephen ryner jr. 🦉4d ago
evacide

Good news for people with older iPhones. Patch your stuff.

https://www.wired.com/story/apple-will-push-out-rare-backported-patches-to-protect-ios-18-users-from-darksword-hacking-tool/

Apple Will Push Out Rare ‘Backported’ Patches to Protect iOS 18 Users From DarkSword Hacking Tool

As DarkSword spreads, Apple tells WIRED it will enable iOS 18-specific fixes for millions of iPhone owners who remain on that iOS version rather than force them to update to iOS 26.

WIRED
Apr 1 at 1:54amWeb
Show threadChristian Rickert4d ago

@evacide

Fuck liquid glass. 🍏

Show threadcognitively accessible math4d ago
@evacide NOpe. Never got sucked into that.
Show threadmahadevank4d ago

@evacide nice!

I'm so relieved, was dreading the upgrade to "glassy slop"

Show threadlynn4d ago
@evacide Thank goodness, I can't believe it had gotten this far until Apple caved.
Show threadNoah Bailey4d ago
@evacide damn you mean I could have stayed on 18 for a bit longer and kept my sanity without the Liquid Glass crap :(
Show threadsnooks4d ago
@evacide
If this is an April Fool prank by Wired or Apple I will snap one or more pencils with much intensity
Show threadgeoff martin3d ago
@evacide YAY! Now let me downgrade from 26 back to 18!
Show threadJonathan T3d ago
@ggmartin @evacide 26 back to 18 would be an upgrade, not a downgrade.
Show threadMe and my Arrow3d ago
@evacide now ya tell me. 🤦🏼
Show threadluca3d ago
@evacide Throw it.
Show threadMatt Godden3d ago
@evacide Here's hoping this is done for iPadOS as well.
Show threadeobet3d ago
@evacide I'm on iOS 17, though and it won't let me update to just 18. I must jump to the liquid ass OS and that won't happen.
Show threadWouter@nukleos3d ago
@evacide I will… once the patch is available. So far, nothing (perhaps because I’m in Belgium?)
Show threadMooMoo the Cat3d ago
@evacide UGH. I wish I had known this before upgrading. Oh, well.
EDIT: But THANK YOU for sharing this info. Hopefully others who can use this info will benefit. 🙏
Show threadWesDym3d ago

@evacide It's weird to me that anyone might use an image like this for a story like this, because it's almost the opposite of appropriate. If hacking created visible, physical defects, we'd know immediately. What makes hacking so bad is that the hacked phone looks exactly the same, with no visible evidence at all unless you know what to look for.

This is like that always-archaic film or TV trope that evil people LOOK evil. But in reality, Evil looks exactly the same as Good.