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pelagicAustral • today at 1:19 PM • 4 replies • view on HN

There is a tinfoil narrative that suggest that entire formats are in bed with intelligence services. It sounds pretty wild, but other zero-click attack vectors have been possible through sabotaging the parsing of file formats. ie. send a message -> hacked. How? the message wasnt even opened. How is, an app like Messenger receives a photo attachment binary, tries to unpack it and in doing so receives an instruction that stops the parser and executes arbitrary instructions.


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Betelbuddy • today at 1:32 PM

Go to LinkedIn, and check how many ex Unit 8200 (a group you never really quit until you are 50)...work for the Apple iOS dev team...

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donutdonot • today at 1:30 PM

With all the AI decompilation going on would it not be possible to find these things in the binary by now?

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oulipo • today at 1:45 PM

It's routine for apps like Messenger to pre-download attachments (eg to compute a resized preview of the image etc)

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