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There's a reason why all security professionals I know use an iPhone.

To my knowledge there hasn't been a single case of an iOS application being able to read the data of another application - or OS files it wasn't explicitly given authorisation to do so.

It can be done, but for desktop it has never been a priority.

A bit like the earliest versions of Windows encountering The Internet for the first time. They were built with the assumption they'd be in a local network at best where clients could be trusted. Then The Internet happened and people plugged their computers directly into it.



Lots of sandbox escapes on iOS, but my favorite was https://blog.siguza.net/psychicpaper/




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