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For fuckup_debugging, can't you use hardware breakpoints instead?

Also, why not patch the binary? I think iteratively patching out protections (in a repeatable, versioned way) would be my approach. It is then applicable to other binaries as well.

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Hardware breakpoints are a little complicated on iOS. And patching the binary would of course only work if no other code verified the validity of the page you touched.

Are hardware breakpoints even possible on iOS? And correct, you can't patch the binary because there many anti-tampering measures, you could probably bypass those, but that's going a different route.

Not the OP, but I can answer I guess. Hardware breakpoints are very limited (number of breakpoints you can put). Usually when you are debugging a decent target, number of breakpoints you use easily reach 50-60.

No doubt, but it's better than pausing every time. I guess with scripting it isn't really different.

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