[hedora]

> Recent iPhones are a distant second in terms of security architecture.

Source? Apple does some pretty sophisticated stuff around hardware security mechanisms and software correctness.

(I genuinely want a technical description of the mechanisms consoles use these days so I can read it -- not trying to start an argument...)

[cmdrfred]

I don't have any details but without a exploit a game console will never run a single line of code that isn't signed. It makes the attack surface rather smaller than an iPhone.

[eric_h]

Without an exploit, how does one run unsigned code on an iPhone, exactly?

[cmdrfred]

Like so: https://www.igeeksblog.com/how-to-sideload-apps-on-iphone-an...

[eric_h]

You're still signing the app when you side load it in that way.