Google's Project Zero finds dangerous iMessage bugs

[Bradley Prior]

Google's Project Zero finds dangerous iMessage bugs

Google’s Project Zero security team has discovered five different bugsaffecting the iMessage app on iPhones.

The bugs allowed attackers to read files off a device remotely by sending a message with certain characters to their victim.

 

[mercurial]

I find this all very ironic, coming from Google.

 

[Swa]

How do these very specific "bugs" even make it into code? Sounds suspiciously like backdoors rather.

 

[mercurial]

How do these very specific "bugs" even make it into code? Sounds suspiciously like backdoors rather.

Of course they are. There are gaping holes everywhere. Security is an illusion.