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Security: Apple’s Highly-Secure ‘Walled Garden’ is a Gift to Elite Hackers
The Apple iPhone has a reputation as being a super-secure device. It’s locked down to the point where hackers have a very hard time trying to break in. But there is a flip side to having this level of security. Once hackers do manage to break into a phone, Apple’s security defenses actually are there to protect the hacker from being found out.
Bill Marczak, a senior researcher at the cybersecurity watchdog Citizen Lab, told MIT Technology Review that “it’s a double-edged sword. You’re going to keep out a lot of the riffraff by making it harder to break iPhones. But the 1% of top hackers are going to find a way in and, once they’re inside, the impenetrable fortress of the iPhone protects them.”
Marczak said that “the best hackers have their own millions to buy or develop zero-click exploits that let them take over iPhones invisibly. These allow attackers to burrow into the restricted parts of the phone without ever giving the target any indication of having been compromised. And once they’re that deep inside, the security becomes a barrier that keeps investigators from spotting or understanding nefarious behavior.”
It may be counterintuitive, but as Apple increasingly has made their devices more secure, that same high level of security also makes it much more difficult for good guys to track or audit any irregularities or intruder activities on the device.
