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by helloooooooo 1154 days ago
iOS has some seriously nifty security mechanisms that takes advantage of features baked into the Apple Processors. Stuff like pointer authentication and page protection layer(something akin to HVCI, without the hypervisor). Jailbreaks are getting harder and harder.

Both Windows and iOS(I can’t speak to macOS) are becoming incredibly security mature operating systems via these security mechanisms that get stacked on top of one another. Saying on is better than the other in terms of security is hard to quantify.

Windows still does have some issues with user mode logical exploitation through DLL hijacking, or issues with credential relaying, although relaying targets are generally known and mitigated by enterprises.

iOS still has issues with remote attack surface, however it has gotten better with iOS 16 and Blastdoor +Lockdown