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NEW: Security researchers have found another sophisticated hacking campaign against iPhone users.
This one is also by a Russian government group against Ukrainians, and involves both stealing personal data and potentially crypto.
And it raises the question: are iPhone hacks more common that we think?
On my flight back to the U.S. this week, I wrote some words about why age verification laws threaten the security and privacy of everyone on the internet. By requiring people to upload their IDs, governments are sleepwalking the world into an inevitable data disaster.
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It's absolutely insane to me that in this day and age a company would reject end-to-end encryption so that cops and feds can actively read people's messages. It also puts that same data at risk from hackers. But that's TikTok, under new U.S. ownership.
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Both of them? What the fuck? #xbox #microsoft
Prosecutors have confirmed for the first time that Peter Williams, the former boss of L3Harris' Trenchant unit (which makes hacking and surveillance tools for the U.S. govermment and its allies), sold the company's exploits to a Russian broker that were capable of accessing "millions of computers and devices" around the world.
Williams, who pleaded guilty, is expected to be sentenced in the next two weeks.
The former boss of the L3Harris-owned hacking and surveillance tools maker Trenchant faces nine years in prison for selling several exploits to a Russian broker, which counts the Russian government among its customers.
For my newsletter and blog, I wrote about how Apple's Lockdown Mode, once billed as an "extreme" security protection for iPhones, iPads, Macs and Watches, has passed a major real-world test by blocking the feds from accessing a journalist's phone.
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