[itsokimbatman]

Think about who would want to spy on you, what they'd want to know, and how much they'd be willing to spend to know it.

If the most they could get out of you was a few thousand bucks from your bank account and maybe your email password, you're probably in the first category.

On the other hand, if you have access to highly confidential information (think classified government info or you're literally working on the next iPhone) or are the type of person who makes enemies of spoiled rich oligarchs in despotic nations then you're probably in the second.

[np-]

The problem is, everyone is in the second category over a long enough time frame. Hong Kongers probably thought the same, but suddenly there were crackdowns, and state actors probably would have loved to have unrestricted access to peoples phones to see if citizens were exercising their “free speech” correctly.

Think about Ukraine today, the Russian government would probably love to have a way to compromise millions of Ukrainian citizens’ phones.

These people all use iPhones.

[AnonymousPlanet]

> These people all use iPhones.

A quick research tells me that pretty much all stats show Android use to be around 80% in Ukraine. Or did you mean Hong Kong? For the latter I see a 50/50 divide.

Just curious about that sentence. I don't think the stats take anything away from your general argument.

[AnonymousPlanet]

Who might be my enemy in the future? Well, maybe anyone who thinks I have something worth to them. Let's say a social media account with a double letter username. Or anything I don't think has any worth now but can be turned into a handsome buck tomorrow. People have been doxed and SWATed over less.

[christophilus]

I don’t know. If I was going to bust a move on, say, Taiwan, it might be handy to have root access to as many computing devices as possible so that I could wreak havoc on my enemy’s communication and banking systems.

[aborsy]

Who will target you if you are working on next iPhone?

[throwaway48375]

everyone

[markdown]

China.

Xiaomi, Huawei, Oppo, Honor... there are quite a few Chinese phone brands that would benefit from knowing what Apple are working on.