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by londons_explore 2178 days ago
> Look at the attacks on various human rights activists

I believe all these begin with browser or existing-app based exploits.

None of them seem to rely on tricking the user into installing a new app. That would be too suspicious for the user, and would entail the attacker uploading their exploit code to apple, and giving apple a full list of users who they exploited...

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Not sure if this call is allowed through the new syscall filter in WebKit, but before it this was one JavaScriptCore bug away from achieving the same thing.