Also mildly interesting, Dmitry Sklyarov was credited… appears to be the same one from Elcomsoft that got arrested at one point because Adobe complained (and DMCA).
"may allow an unauthenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via physical access"
I'm sure there's cases where that's still an issue, but for me, if they have their hands on it it's probably game over via some other route.
They're not impenetrable per se, but iPhone is pretty secure, even with physical access.
Citation seriously needed for this bold statement.
Apple is not known for timely patches for their vulnerabilities, so no, you don't even need physical access to compromise iPhones, RCE vulns not acknowledged by Apple will do just fine. Just ask shady Israeli/Saudi security companies.
Also, nothing is ever impenetrable. In cybersecurity, if your opponent has physical access to your device then it's considered game over and you have to wipe or even throw it away. That's why burner devices are heavily used.
Plus, what do iPhones have to do with the Intel chips here anyway?
Ironically, given lots of early Iphone jailbreaks were due to Apple finding out that CPUs have JTAG ports too late.
right, not so much low-end as dead-end :)
In any case, it is not like I was making some deep point, other than a cheap shot at Intel mobile/embedded effort :).
The Atom C3000 series is also widely used in NAS because it supports ECC memory and can be passively cooled while still being performant enough to not be a bottleneck.