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From: Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Disable iMessage NOW! (Trust Wallet Warns iOS Users About New
 iMessage Zero-Day Vulnerabilities)
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2024 17:00:57 +0100
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On 19/04/2024 16:19, Mickey D wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Apr 2024 17:04:47 +0200, Jörg Lorenz wrote:
> 
>>>>> It's just a rehash of the recent hardware flaw discovered in Apple
>>>>> M-series cpus. The biggest risk - although still tiny - from the flaw is
>>>>> cryptography, hence why the crypto community are concerned.
>>>>
>>>> Has nothing to do with iMsg as claimed by the OP.
>>>
>>> You're confused by the huge number of Apple zero-day holes, only some of
>>> which are known to be found in Apple's M-series unpatchably flawed chips.
>>
>> M-series chips have nothing to do with iOS.
> 
> Nobody said it did. You are confused by the huge number of zero day holes
> in Apple's products that you can't separate which of those many zero-day
> holes are in iMessage (which can be patched) and which of the holes are in
> Apple's millions of hopelessly flawed CPU chips (which can't be patched).
> 
> Back to the subject matter at hand, the net has been flooded with the
> suggestion for iOS users to disable iMessages due to a "credible" warning.
> https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2024/04/17/disable-imessages-asap-high-risk-alert-issued-over-credible-iphone-exploit/
> 
> For days, that has been the news but more recently the news has tempered
> that dire warning saying that the evidence is mostly in hackers' news.
> https://crypto.news/trust-wallet-warns-apple-ios-users-of-imessage-vulnerability/
> 
> Non-hacker news has recently been reporting that it could be a false alarm.
> https://www.androidheadlines.com/2024/04/iphone-users-warned-about-imessage-exploit-but-it-could-be-fake.html

These are all reporting on the Trust Wallet story. That's not a flood, 
just an echo.