https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegasus_(spyware)

This artikel talks about pegasus which was an interesting hack of iPhone and Android phones.

I hate apple, and everything around it, company politics, forms, everything…

But the reality is that iphone in terms of security,privacy in mobile phones are the best.

Surely much of that merit comes from the disaster that companies that sell Android phones make, but that’s how it is.

It’s hard? yes, nearly impossible no. Their security has been breached at least two or three times that I remember.

The closed nature of iOS does provide an extra layer of security. But I don’t know about “almost impossible”, I would only go as far as “more difficult than Android”.

Don’t waste your time with that argument. It’s futile and it’ll be fruitless. People that preach for a brand (be it Apple or any other in any field) are way more close-minded than iOS itself.

I have always looked at it this way. I can make a phone 100% unhackable. You will not be able to make phone calls or texts or anything else with it, but its unhackable. So iPhone is very secure on the grand scheme of things, but you are also hamstrung with what you can/cannot do with it. Android, if you can dream it, you can do it. It is much less secure, but there are very few restrictions you have with it. Thete is inherently nothing wrong with either, they both have their niche. My wife has an iPhone, but it does everything she needs with it, and is very secure, I dont have to worry about her getting hacked because of her phone. I use Android, but I know/ understand what the risks are, and mitigate them as much as possible. I use my Android for work and play in ways that the iPone is incapable of. Yes, the iPhone can/has been hacked but not very easily and not without help from the user.

Pegasus spyware took advantage of a very old x-pdf reader, this allowed for executing assembler code (yes that very old way of programming) inside of the phone’s sandbox until it could escape the sandbox by creating an actual vm with it’s own registry inside the phone.

So it it possible to hack anything? Yes. But easy? not at all.

It is nearly impossible. You have to be the Mossad or some state actor to just RAT IOS. Maybe do better and don’t get in arguments with your professors next time

Problem is your teacher isn’t entirely off here.

An iPhone can by default only install applications from app store. Contrary to Android where you can allow third party apps. There’s good advantages of that since. You can get what’s virtually youtube premium for free for example. And alot of apps that you can’t get for iPhone.

But iPhone can get exploited by the right zero days. So can android ofcourse. So in a sense you’re more safe with iPhone simply because you have handcuffs on already as a user

Google checkrain not exactly what you’re looking for but does speak to a serious flaw in Apple hardware up to the iPhone 11 I think it was?

Don’t make a bet that you’re not sure of, and then when someone asks for proof, you ask other people for proof. Good on you for standing your ground I guess but you clearly don’t know about the security of them or you wouldn’t be here. Apple has bounties of hundreds of thousands of dollars, even up to 1 million I think, for people to bypass their security.

lol yeah man good luck. Nobody that can RAT an iPhone in /tech support is going to tell you how to do so. They’ll probably read this, chuckle, and then move on from the post. Enjoy apologizing to your teacher.

I recently started my IT study and got into a discussion with my teacher about the security of IOS.

Read this and got all ready to read and reply about the long and sordid tale of Cisco’s Internetworking Operating System and its security…the OG IOS.

Hrmph, boring phones…

So, you spoke out of turn about something to somebody more knowledgeable, and you’re here to save face?

Only way out of this is to bring your teacher an apple with a rat sticker or something. Make it into a mutual joke so you’re not the butt of it.

Sure, they can be compromised, but your teacher is more/less correct on this one. You’d have to jailbreak and install something with a payload. I’m not even certain a 13 can do that. And if you get there, it’s firmly in use error territory that it gets pwned.

Definitely not impossible. You should point your teacher to read about the NSO Group.

I’d suggest not calling your teacher out unless you have some specific first-hand knowledge and can back up your claims. Your teacher could go online and ask about iOS exploits himself, I don’t think that was the challenge.

If he had said it’s “impossible”, you could point out that nothing is unhackable, but that’s not what he said.

Apple has a pretty good bug bounty program https://security.apple.com/bounty/categories/

So you don’t agree … but you have to come ask here to prove you right? Seems to me like you’re talking out of your ass even more than your teacher is.