PJ Vogt

And if somebody, nobody would ever do this to me, not that type of reporter, but if it happened to me, what would happen? Like one day I would get a text message from an unknown number with a funny emoji and that would be them breaking in?

And if somebody, nobody would ever do this to me, not that type of reporter, but if it happened to me, what would happen? Like one day I would get a text message from an unknown number with a funny emoji and that would be them breaking in?

Let me tell you a story about what Alex means when he says, it's really bad. So one of these iPhone exploits was discovered by NSO, that Israeli hacker group Alex mentioned. And NSO sold it to the Saudi government. Here's how they used it. One day in 2018, a flight attendant gets taken into custody at the Dubai airport.

Let me tell you a story about what Alex means when he says, it's really bad. So one of these iPhone exploits was discovered by NSO, that Israeli hacker group Alex mentioned. And NSO sold it to the Saudi government. Here's how they used it. One day in 2018, a flight attendant gets taken into custody at the Dubai airport.

Let me tell you a story about what Alex means when he says, it's really bad. So one of these iPhone exploits was discovered by NSO, that Israeli hacker group Alex mentioned. And NSO sold it to the Saudi government. Here's how they used it. One day in 2018, a flight attendant gets taken into custody at the Dubai airport.

While she's being interrogated, someone opens her phone and covertly installs the exploit on it. Not because they're interested in her, but because they're interested in her partner, a man named Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi journalist, a columnist at The Washington Post. He'd been critical of the royal family. Five months later, Khashoggi is murdered, quite brutally, by agents of the Saudi government.

While she's being interrogated, someone opens her phone and covertly installs the exploit on it. Not because they're interested in her, but because they're interested in her partner, a man named Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi journalist, a columnist at The Washington Post. He'd been critical of the royal family. Five months later, Khashoggi is murdered, quite brutally, by agents of the Saudi government.

While she's being interrogated, someone opens her phone and covertly installs the exploit on it. Not because they're interested in her, but because they're interested in her partner, a man named Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi journalist, a columnist at The Washington Post. He'd been critical of the royal family. Five months later, Khashoggi is murdered, quite brutally, by agents of the Saudi government.

Presumably, Apple built these security systems to prevent events like this one. But Alex thought that here, perhaps one of those security systems, built for a very important reason, was behaving in an overzealous way. The rogue ampersand. The fact that it just confused the iPhone for a moment. Maybe the system saw that as a vulnerability and stopped the message from transmitting at all.

Presumably, Apple built these security systems to prevent events like this one. But Alex thought that here, perhaps one of those security systems, built for a very important reason, was behaving in an overzealous way. The rogue ampersand. The fact that it just confused the iPhone for a moment. Maybe the system saw that as a vulnerability and stopped the message from transmitting at all.

Presumably, Apple built these security systems to prevent events like this one. But Alex thought that here, perhaps one of those security systems, built for a very important reason, was behaving in an overzealous way. The rogue ampersand. The fact that it just confused the iPhone for a moment. Maybe the system saw that as a vulnerability and stopped the message from transmitting at all.

That's the theory anyway. I have one more question. If I were like a different kind of person ethically, like, is there a path by which, you know, this listener is like, hey, I saw a Facebook post, this funny thing happens on an iPhone, check it out. They send it to me and I'm like, send a message to someone in China or Israel or Russia.

That's the theory anyway. I have one more question. If I were like a different kind of person ethically, like, is there a path by which, you know, this listener is like, hey, I saw a Facebook post, this funny thing happens on an iPhone, check it out. They send it to me and I'm like, send a message to someone in China or Israel or Russia.

That's the theory anyway. I have one more question. If I were like a different kind of person ethically, like, is there a path by which, you know, this listener is like, hey, I saw a Facebook post, this funny thing happens on an iPhone, check it out. They send it to me and I'm like, send a message to someone in China or Israel or Russia.

And I'm like, hey, there's this little part of the security wall that looks a little funny, like, you can use this and like they do a little bit more work. And then the next thing you know, someone is calling a journalist and saying like Dave and Buster's, Dave and Buster's, Dave and Buster's and getting into their email.

And I'm like, hey, there's this little part of the security wall that looks a little funny, like, you can use this and like they do a little bit more work. And then the next thing you know, someone is calling a journalist and saying like Dave and Buster's, Dave and Buster's, Dave and Buster's and getting into their email.

And I'm like, hey, there's this little part of the security wall that looks a little funny, like, you can use this and like they do a little bit more work. And then the next thing you know, someone is calling a journalist and saying like Dave and Buster's, Dave and Buster's, Dave and Buster's and getting into their email.

Alex recommended that we email Apple with the details of the anomaly, which we did. Apple looked into it and actually got back to us. They told us what we'd found is a rare bug. I mean, we knew that. And said it poses no security risk to its users. They said a fix will be available and a software update soon. So the days of the anomaly we have cherished so much, they're numbered.

Alex recommended that we email Apple with the details of the anomaly, which we did. Apple looked into it and actually got back to us. They told us what we'd found is a rare bug. I mean, we knew that. And said it poses no security risk to its users. They said a fix will be available and a software update soon. So the days of the anomaly we have cherished so much, they're numbered.

Alex recommended that we email Apple with the details of the anomaly, which we did. Apple looked into it and actually got back to us. They told us what we'd found is a rare bug. I mean, we knew that. And said it poses no security risk to its users. They said a fix will be available and a software update soon. So the days of the anomaly we have cherished so much, they're numbered.