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Horrifying Hack Takes Over iPhones Just by Pointing an Antenna at Them – Futurism
“There’s something hauntingly beautiful watching all these iPhones die at slightly different times, as they get a WiFi broadcast packet of death.”
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During the coronavirus lockdown, professional hacker Ian Beer, a member of Googles hacking team Project Zero, developed a way to remotely hijack iPhones simply by pointing a homebrewed antenna at them.
Beers technique requires only about $100 worth of equipment, Motherboard reports, and granted him total control of whatever phones he targeted. This is Beers specialty, but the fact remains that his comparatively-simple hack made the iPhones security measures seem disturbingly trivial.
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