I trust 404 media more than most sources, but I can’t help but reflexively read every story prominently showcasing the FBI’s supposed surveillance gaps as attempted watering hole attacks. The NSA almost certainly has hardware backdoors in Apple silicon, as disclosed a couple of years ago by the excellent researchers at Kaspersky. That being the case, Lockdown Mode is not even in play.

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chuckadams 4 hours ago | parent [-]

The NSA is not going to tip its hand about any backdoors it had built into the hardware for something as small as this.

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ddtaylor 4 hours ago | parent [-]

It depends on if parallel reconstruction can be used to provide deniability.

	▲	chuckadams 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Even a parallel construction has limited uses, since you can't use the same excuse every time. The NSA probably doesn't trust the FBI to come up with something plausible.