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hu3 on Sept 28, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Developer of Checkm8 explains why iDevice jailbrea...

Is it that hard to imagine implications? Do you need convincing?

For example, everyone's iPhone X and before being vulnerable to airport security scans. If they can root your device, they can install anything without your consent.

matwood on Sept 28, 2019 [–]

So reboot after going through airport security. Without the pin no data can be retrieved.

hu3 on Sept 28, 2019 | [–]

Data can be retrieved and stored. Just not decrypted, yet, as far as publicly known.

Not to mention that allowing one to install anything on your device opens up the gates for a myriad of potential security exploits.

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