^ For those who don't think this is a BFD:
- Someone sends you an iMessage with the payload, often in an image.
- Payload installs itself after it hits your device, with *no interaction* from you.
- Everything your device does/sees/hears is now remotely accessible, and you cannot tell it's happening.
This software is nominally for intel agencies targeting individuals, but has been licensed to oppressive governments who want to spy on their citizens.
This is a good reason to turn on sender filtering in Messages.
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@mcfate @voltronic will that help? It says it just puts unknown senders into a different list.
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If that's the case, then that wouldn't help. You would need to block messages from unknown senders ever being received by your device.
Of course, if someone smart was using this, they would spoof the sender so it appears to be someone in your contacts.
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