[trashburger]

Ouch! That's a fail on the same level of Microsoft forgetting the XBox decryption keys on the secret ROM.

[ixtli]

The product itself was, at this stage, very rushed to market.

[95014_refugee]

The IFX team that produced the baseband firmware had never heard of Sicherheit. It was … riddled with trivially exploitable security issues.

[bombcar]

So very many products are, but most people never see any of it, and most are boring enough that nobody cares to break them apart and see what's inside.

[ixtli]

its also worth noting, on balance, that apple quickly made it a relatively hardened platform.