this post was submitted on 07 Sep 2023
177 points (100.0% liked)
Technology
59689 readers
2654 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related content.
- Be excellent to each another!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
Approved Bots
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Daily reminder to use Lockdown Mode, folks. Nothing of value is lost in activating and using it.
Edit: turns out the flaw is exploited by way of an attachment that LM stops from loading. So in this case, LM would save you.
Doesn't the article contradict what you just said?
"We believe, and Apple’s Security Engineering and Architecture team has confirmed to us, that Lockdown Mode blocks this particular attack," Citizen Lab said.
Edited. Still a sledgehammer approach imo.