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by IncRnd 1585 days ago
> Except we don't live in the past decade anymore.

You do know that is a terible attitude for a real-world security posture meant to protect non-theoretical people's property and information against actual exploits?

> In the past a bug in the SMS stack could be mass exploited and still not getting fixed anytime soon. Not anymore.

While you may wish for patches to always take care of exploits before any phones are compromised, that's not much more than wishful thinking. You assume that all 0day exploits are both known and fixed immediately. That is 100% false.