The scary thing is that even though this sounds like a monstrous effort to pull off this hack, its not out of reach for large governments. Its basically known as a fact they have loads of these exploits sitting in their toolbox ready to use when they have a enticing enough target.
Short of rewriting the whole of iOS in a memory safe language I'm not sure how they could even solve this problem. Assigning a researcher to search for 6 months only to find one bug is financially prohibitive.
Short of rewriting the whole of iOS in a memory safe language I'm not sure how they could even solve this problem. Assigning a researcher to search for 6 months only to find one bug is financially prohibitive.