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0 pointsgerdesj4y ago0 comments

A bright lad with a few years experience finds a way around the mitigations for a flaw found in the previous version. Bear in mind Apple is a $T1 organisation and he ... isn't.

Not only does he perform a rather well polished dance but he writes it up in an entertaining and well presented way. I suspect english is a second language too which makes the whole thing even more impressive.

Just to reiterate: he waltzes around a key aspect of the security in iOS 14 - that is disturbing to me. If he can do that, what do you think a well funded nation state bunch of noddies gets up to?

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vitus4y ago

> A bright lad with a few years experience

A few years experience specifically working with iOS. That doesn't say anything about how much existing experience he has in the security space.

Here's a Java critical patch update from 2017 that references someone of the same name (probably him):

https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2017.html

gerdesjOP4y ago

When I was his age, I had trouble finding my arse with both hands. He manages an attractive presentation of a pretty dry subject in a foreign language and presents it to an all star audience.

I suspect he'll do all right.

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