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pats-fan-till-death t1_j14oik0 wrote

like all apps, potentially opens access to a user's entire phone.

"Anytime you have an app on the phone, there's the potential for using that app to bridge access to other things on the phone," said Michael Daniel, CEO of Cyber Threat Alliance.

Is this statement true? I’ve always felt my apple devices were secure

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LukeLC t1_j167k38 wrote

Technically it's true, but it's misleading, for sure. There are lots of protections in place to stop this kind of thing from happening, both on iOS and Android. Nothing is bulletproof, though.

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