>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?
Wow! Every week it seems on HN there are articles about the porous nature of iPhone impenetrability. Everything from zero click attacks in iMessages that have been unpatched since iOS 4 to Wi-Fi bugs that could be exploited for remote code execution without any user interaction at all. The problem that these exist is not even the issue. It's the glaring number and breadth of the exploits that make it likely these are just the tip of the iceberg. Apple has been sleeping at at wheel with regards to security and I can't imagine short of a "Snow Leopard" style crusade to fix security (back then it was performance), that this is going to change anytime soon.
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?