14.6 was a hot pile of crap, every song in Apple Music played the first 15 seconds only when the internet connection is not good, even if we have fully downloaded the songs.
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Apple Confirms iOS 14.7 Fixes WiFi Bug and Many Other Vulnerabilities
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For a moment I thought you said Pegasus Mail.
Who remembers using that in the 90's ?
The late 90s where all kinds of weird softwares were available in the market. There were also no encryption and no laws for the internet 😂. I used Windows at that time though, until the trash that was Windows Vista, when I finally bought my first Mac by myself.For a moment I thought you said Pegasus Mail.
Who remembers using that in the 90's ?
I have it installed on one of my devices. And I still have Apple Music issues. Mainly that it doesn’t do anything most of the time. Siri won’t bring up any playlists. And when I try to go into the app to play music. It doesn’t do anything. Usually a reboot. Or going into Airplane mode fixes it.
Nobody in the USA has been affected by this according to Rene Ritchie. It's a very serious security issue, but I doubt it's something that affects anybody on this site. But the sooner it gets patched the better.
Yes it’s fixed. I switched the phone to airplane mode and the downloaded songs continue to play through.
But at least you have solace in owning the most overpriced smart phone.🤓
I had to redownload my entire music catalog and the usb c to 3.5mm popping noises stopped and messing around with my wired headphones the lossless/hi res stopping all of a sudden on some artist I zeroed down to are completely working fine now, I fixed it this before 14.7 by redownloading the album or song but the popping noises I couldn’t find a way around, try that just it in case
Are older iPhones that can’t run iOS 14 (still) vulnerable for certain of these vulnerabilities?
Same question for watchOS.
And what if you have a non upgradable Watch series 2 with an iPhone that runs iOS 14?
Where can we find more information about that?
Same question for watchOS.
And what if you have a non upgradable Watch series 2 with an iPhone that runs iOS 14?
Where can we find more information about that?
So, Apple demonstrably refused to support Adobe Flash claiming it was too insecure only to produce even more insecure product in iMessage. Is not it ironic? Or is hypocritical the better word?
Best to not use iMessage. I wish we could install a normal SMS app for our security SMSs and so on.
iMessage is a massive security hole, I dont think it's fixable.
iMessage has apps
Video
smart stickers
animoji
And probably a few more lesser known features
Each of the above is nearly impossible to secure against zero days. Too much code running doing too many "cool" things and all of it highly complex.
There's got to be 1000s of security holes left that zero day exploits can use, even if they fix the ones that Pegasus _was_ using. Pegasus and the company likely has a few more zero day zero click exploits lying around in case their primary method gets patched. So there's a patch, then they upgrade Pegasus to use the next version. And so on.
iMessage presents a giant attack surface, and it's installed on every iPhone, and it has some system privileges that whatsapp and others don't have - a hacker's wet dream, and no wonder it's getting exploited.
It's the low hanging fruit
Best would be to delete iMessage off the phone and to use a plain text SMS app, but I guess on iPhone that is not an option at the moment
Plain SMS is far less secure than iMessage...
Why SMS Text Messages Aren't Private or Secure
You may not want Facebook seeing every message you send, but standard SMS text messages aren't any better. In fact, they're even worse.
www.howtogeek.com
And the argument for this is which? The so very trustable NSO group saying so?!
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Pegasus is only used by goverments and law enforcement to track criminal activity. Nobody is spying on you in particular. If you're not a high level criminal, you've got nothing to worry about.
The argument for...? Not sure what you're trying to say. I relayed information from a supposedly reputable Youtuber and mentioned my source. I guess we can choose to believe it or not. Is this issue problematic? Absolutely. Can I do anything about it? Nart. But we do need this patched ASAP.
There will never be a pagasus fix because the company that makes the software literally sells it to government agencies and law enforcement. If they fix it then it will be useless to all of the agencies that have it. Ain't gonna happen.
Apple has patched vulnerabilities used by companies that contract with law enforcement before.
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/cat-mouse-fight-fix-exploit-iphone-s-security-flaws-n883496
Plain SMS is far less secure than iMessage...
Why SMS Text Messages Aren't Private or Secure
You may not want Facebook seeing every message you send, but standard SMS text messages aren't any better. In fact, they're even worse.
I know it's not easy for non-technical people to see the difference but this article is missing the point completely.
First - are there zero-click exploits for iMessage? Yes. There are. Are there zero click exploits for SMS? No, there are not. Therefore, iMessage is way less secure than SMS.
iMessage has some really nice encryption features, meaning nobody can read your private messages. Sort of like Signal.
(BTW that's the gold standard for privacy in my book)
SMS has none of that and generally any government agency or highly motivated individual can intercept and read messages.
But hackers can't send you a message that allows them to take over your phone.
IMO Apple just messed up iMessage is a really bad way since they tried to make it compete with Whatsapp and Line, which was a waste of effort since Whatsapp and Line and all the others exist anwyay and are all cross platform whereas iMessage is iOS only and therefore always plays with both hands tied behind its back.
iMessage before animoji and apps was great.
You cannot be serious.
First, if governments can use these holes, then so can criminals.
Second, governments are the greatest criminals in the world, so it doesn't really matter.
Nobody has killed more people in the last decades than governments. Governments are basically psychopathic killers, having killed millions. Oh but they've been nice to you? Sure as long as you stay on their good side. Personally, I would not trust a guy who has a track record of murder. Neither would I trust an organization who has a track record of murder, in this case mass murder.
But hey maybe that's just me!
Apple in this case is actually one of the few companies doing the right thing - unfortunately though, there's so many zero day exploits left in the software that they have lost the cat and mouse game.