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by Gigachad 23 days ago
The parent comment isn’t about remote attestation. It was a claim that since the iPhone isn’t bulletproof then all security must be pointless.

When the reality is the iPhone is actually quite a good example that great security is possible with enough investment.

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> It was a claim that since the iPhone isn’t bulletproof then all security must be pointless.

Nobody was ever claiming that. The claim is that because it isn't bulletproof, remote attestation is pointless, since it has a different failure mode where once keys can be extracted the attacker can't be deprived of them, so there is no way to return the installed base of existing devices to a state of being able to trust their attestations.