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by Dah00n 1798 days ago
>"BlastDoor is a great step, to be sure, but it's pretty lame to just slap sandboxing on iMessage and hope for the best. How about: "don't automatically run extremely complex and buggy parsing on data that strangers push to your phone?!"

https://twitter.com/billmarczak/status/1416801514685796352
1 comments
gjsman-1000 1798 days ago
Except that almost every other secure messenger is guilty of the same thing. And they don't sandbox at all, whereas BlastDoor at least tries to.
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Dah00n 1797 days ago
Really? I have never heard of any "extremely complex and buggy parsing" done by other clients. Do you have a link to info on that?
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