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Is it really that easy to hack iphone 13?

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Recently we were witness of hacking the iphone 13 running ios 15 fully updated at tianfu hacking contest (china). The Chinese version of the Pwn2own  hacking competition called Tianfu Cup took place from 16 to 17 oct. 2021 in Chengdu, China. Windows 10, ios 15, Ubuntu, Chrome and many apps or system's security were broken at that contest. One of exploits demonstrated got attention alot, it was  0 click Remote code execution exploit against fully patched iphone. And it was narrated by media as anyone can hack your iphone within 15 seconds which is bad thing. First of all: An actual devlopment of exploit script from finding a loophole to creatively bypassing all mitigation. It definitely took months of hard work from reading binaries to thinking out of the box. And don't forget that they were lucky to find any loophole in security otherwise they couldn't even start. And all that they showed was the execution of that exploit script executing their creative plan that hacked iph