There are lots of governments and their capabilities vary wildly. Of course there’s the big trust issue with Apple itself, the US government, most of Apples supply chain, and the governments of those suppliers. But this still leaves out many groups who really want to get into peoples phones, and their only option is finding zero day exploits to get in. This mode vastly reduces the attack surface for them.
I wouldn’t touch an iPhone if I had to do something with US government secrets though.
And who knows which government sellers of hardened phones belong to.
Many targets probably don’t even think they are important enough to be targeted, so they wouldn’t put in the money and effort for tinfoil hat security anyway. But maybe they feel important enough to just enable this mode.
Saying this mode is useless because there might still be ways to get in is like saying seatbelts are useless because you can still die in car crashes.
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There are lots of governments and their capabilities vary wildly. Of course there’s the big trust issue with Apple itself, the US government, most of Apples supply chain, and the governments of those suppliers. But this still leaves out many groups who really want to get into peoples phones, and their only option is finding zero day exploits to get in. This mode vastly reduces the attack surface for them.
I wouldn’t touch an iPhone if I had to do something with US government secrets though.
And who knows which government sellers of hardened phones belong to.
Many targets probably don’t even think they are important enough to be targeted, so they wouldn’t put in the money and effort for tinfoil hat security anyway. But maybe they feel important enough to just enable this mode.
Saying this mode is useless because there might still be ways to get in is like saying seatbelts are useless because you can still die in car crashes.
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