Tldr; suspected government grade spyware originating from Israeli company NSO used to trap dissidents in Arab countries, targeting the iPhone (iOS 9) and utilising 2 or 3 zero days to jailbreak the device and snoop on everything it can.
Would have been nice to read some technical details but there are none, and the piece goes on forever, needlessly.
Also shows you how hard it is to build secure systems, you have to be perfect and the attacker only has to be persistent and succeed once.
Original Link
http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/11/how-bill-marczak-spyw...
If one becomes root in a docker container, the worst damage it can do is to that container's files. That is better the current "sandboxing" in iOS/Android setup, true?
Its what you get when hipsters think they are hot shit with tech because they own something Apple made.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryan_Burrough
Yes, he is not a technology writer. But it's also obvious that the technology specialists weren't the target audience of this article.
It is surely not easy read for us who expect to read the technical info, and who already know most of the context.
but let the normies have their day in the sun! not all hipsters are bad and i guess someone out there did enjoy the readup. i'd really wish these things weren't posted to HN though.