I once worked for a company that sold credit card fraud-detection software. The software analyzed every transaction to determine if it should be accepted or denied or if the merchant should cut up the card right there and then. There was much sophisticated statistical analysis ("Is this the fourth expensive Dyson vacuum cleaner the user has purchased at different stores in the last 2 hours? If so, deny.") but before all that, each transaction went through a series of card-issuer-specific tests. The first, most important, test was "Is this card on the list of cards for which all transactions are automatically accepted, without exception?" Such cards are issued to billionaires and their trusted employees. I can absolutely guarantee you that Tim Cook's card is on that list.

Does it support Bluetooth?

Only two years? Try twice that at least. Scammers ruined the "phone" utility of my smartphone. I (along many other people) long ago stopped answering calls from numbers that aren't in my Contacts list. Will the FCC do something that will make it useful again? Somehow I doubt it.

Yes, it's not clear. It could've been the PDF masquerading as a GIF, or it could be the malicious JBIG2 file embedded in the PDF. Here's a very deep dive into the Pegasus exploit. I admit I sorta admire whoever did this. It's audacious and extremely sophisticated.

https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2021/12/a-deep-dive-into-nso-zero-click.html/

Thanks for this very insightful comment. FWIW I wish I had karma to give you, but maybe this reply is more meaningful than a click. It's rare that a Slashdot comment on an Apple topic is more thoughtful than just "Apple SUX!"

From the main story about the NSO software https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/interactive/2021/nso-spyware-pegasus-cellphones/?itid=lk_inline_manual_14

Amnesty's Security Lab examined 67 smartphones where attacks were suspected. Of those, 23 were successfully infected and 14 showed signs of attempted penetration.

For the remaining 30, the tests were inconclusive, in several cases because the phones had been replaced. Fifteen of the phones were Android devices, none of which showed evidence of successful infection. However, unlike iPhones, Androids do not log the kinds of information required for Amnesty's detective work.

Problem is reaching into a pocket to get your phone might get you killed

Not if you're white.

Hey DontBeAMoran, see those goalposts? Move them over there.

Congratulations, trans! You've just repeated a decade-old joke that stopped being funny about 9 1/2 years ago.

P.S. Steve Jobs died 9 years ago. The rest of the world has moved on.

Frontier is assuming that somebody will pay for a middle seat. I don't think so. In fact, I predict that, post-quarantine, airlines are going to have to rip out the middle seat of all their planes if they want to sell tickets.

See now this is exactly what I love about Slashdot. Dozens of skilled, experienced Microsoft engineers labor for months, maybe even years, to create an open-source voting system. xaosflux scans the FA summary for 10 seconds and thinks "Aha! I found the gaping hole in the system that literally NOBODY else saw!"

Sigh. If only we could harness the collective brainpower of /. users for good.

Apple will lose and have to pay $100,000,000, or about .01% of their value. The lawyers will get $90,000,000 and the class members will divide up the rest. So if you're a member of the class look for a check for about $8.72.

Go read Ted Chiang's story "The Lifecycle of Software Objects" in his newest collection Exhalation. Then come back and answer this question.

That's true. I live in a condo building with a bathroom on the 1st floor near the mailroom. Over half of the Amazon drivers make a pit stop when they deliver a package. So does the mail carrier. UPS and FedEx never do. Of course, UPS and FedEx drivers usually trot from the truck to our door and back, leading me to think that they have a pee bottle in the truck so they can get relief without having to stop.

Consider how many security problems could be solved, not by switching phones, not by tightening settings, but by simply deleting Facebook.