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fh9302on Meduza co-founder's phone infected with Pegasus

So far there has not been a confirmed Pegasus infection with lockdown mode enabled. It's certainly possible but will require more sophisticated exploits, thus increasing the price per infection.

fh9302on iPhone 12 withdrawn from French market for non-compliance with EU regulation

Apple has denied those findings.

> Apple said it had provided ANFR with multiple Apple and independent third-party lab results proving its compliance with all applicable SAR regulations and standards in the world.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/apple-disputes-french-fin...

fh9302on Chrome: Heap buffer overflow in WebP

https://citizenlab.ca/2023/09/blastpass-nso-group-iphone-zer...

> Last week, while checking the device of an individual employed by a Washington DC-based civil society organization with international offices, Citizen Lab found an actively exploited zero-click vulnerability being used to deliver NSO Group’s Pegasus mercenary spyware.

And since the initial bug appears to be in Google's webp library other programs are also vulnerable.

fh9302on Apple vs. Meta: The Illusion of Privacy

Can you show a source for your iCloud backup CSAM scanning claim? These days iCloud supports E2EE so they have no ability to scan once you enable it.

Signal does not support any cloud backups and WhatsApp uses iCloud so this seems like a flawed comparison.

fh9302on Apple vs. Meta: The Illusion of Privacy

This article seems to conflate Apple for Meta's privacy violations. Yes, the OS can always make it more difficult to do fingerprinting and the app store could add even more "privacy warnings", but in the end if you use a privacy violating third party app they will always find ways to slurp up all your data. Using this as some kind of argument that Apple doesn't care about privacy is dishonest.

fh9302on Chrome now tracks users and shares a “topic” list with advertisers

Can you give me a source that enabling the topics API disables third-party cookies? And once Chrome has phased out third-party cookies the topics API will strictly decrease my privacy, not increase it.

fh9302on Chrome now tracks users and shares a “topic” list with advertisers

It's nefarious how they ask you if you want to turn on "ad privacy", indicating that this feature increases your privacy when in reality it does the opposite.

fh9302on NSO group iPhone zero-click, zero-day exploit captured in the wild

The downsides of using Lockdown Mode are minimal and well worth if you are an at-risk target. It's about reducing the attack surface and potentially getting notified if nation state actors try to attack your phone.

fh9302on Killed by Google

Surprised they didn't add the Pixel Pass yet.

fh9302on Windows 11 system components use the default browser to open links in Europe

Why are you comparing a desktop operating system to a mobile operating system? On macOS Apple lets you trivially set a different default browser and doesn't annoy you about it.

fh9302on Apple to Limit iPhone 15 USB-C Cables to USB 2.0 Speeds: Report

We are specifically talking about USB-PD fast charging cables which the Pixel 1 does not support.

Edit: The above sentence is incorrect, I misread a source. The original Pixel shipped with a USB-A to USB-C cable that supported 3.0 speeds and a USB-C to USB-C cable that supported 2.0 speeds. Since the Pixel 2 they only ship with USB-C to USB-C cables that support 2.0 speeds.

https://support.google.com/pixelphone/answer/7158537

fh9302on Apple to Limit iPhone 15 USB-C Cables to USB 2.0 Speeds: Report

This Reddit user claims the included charging cable with the 4A is limited to 2.0 speeds.

https://old.reddit.com/r/UsbCHardware/comments/14irr99/cable...

Same for the Pixel 6A. Google charging cables are all 2.0.

https://old.reddit.com/r/GooglePixel/comments/xm2fw5/why_doe...

fh9302on Apple to Limit iPhone 15 USB-C Cables to USB 2.0 Speeds: Report

Here you have a source for flagship Samsung devices: https://www.reddit.com/r/samsung/comments/15sby2o/what_speed...

The same applies to Pixel devices and Apple devices. There might be exceptions I'm not aware of but it's definitely not the industry standard for USB-PD charging cables to come with 3.0 or faster data transfer speeds as the extra wires increase cost and decrease flexibility, which makes them less suitable for a daily charging cable.

fh9302on Apple to Limit iPhone 15 USB-C Cables to USB 2.0 Speeds: Report

This original source does not say anything about what the phone will support. It is about the charging cable that is included.

fh9302on Apple to Limit iPhone 15 USB-C Cables to USB 2.0 Speeds: Report

The headline is misleading. The cited source in the article only talks about the included charging cable and not what limitations the phone has. A more accurate headline would be "iPhone 15 to Ship with USB 2.0-Speed USB-C Cables".

All USB-C charging cables that come with phones and laptops have USB 2.0 data transfer speeds. That includes flagship Samsung phones.