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by S0und 1446 days ago
I find is absolutely hilarious that they've kept the images in Messages while one of Pegasus attack vector was sending a PSD file as a *.gif, which crashed Messages parser.

Apple is over confident in it ability.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/09/apple...

People who need this have already a dumb phone, using this Lockdown mode is an unnecessary gamble on they part.

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Yeah, apple really should dumb down that parser to just “modern” jpg/png/webp for their entire application stack. bmps and gifs shouldn’t still be used. And photoshop is a bit proprietary for apple to be rendering their files within iMessage