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"But it’s an admission that the complexity of a modern phone operating system (or tablet, or desktop OS) have just gotten too much to handle, so the best path forward is to offer the option to not do those things."

Looking at non-consumer security mobile phones (like the one from Boeing) or those that are modified to be secure (like the Blackberry used by Obama) they all seem to employ this less-is-more approach to security.

In other words, what's the minimum tolerable feature set we can offer without further compromising security? It follows from the question 'why use a phone at all? If there is a functionality the client can't do without, then how do we provide just that without any security downside?'

It's a sensible approach which means Apple has just entered this market. Not in a big way yet - phones are made in China, modem chip firmware security has a long way to go. But lockdown is just beginning too and it shows Apple understands this is serious.

But all this is just defense. Next step is the entire industry. Finfisher is done - next up: NSO, Candiru and Darkmatter, their investors, suppliers and scumbag employees before they dissolve/rebrand and scurry back out of the light.