Hackers use Congressman’s iPhone to demo ability to listen into calls, monitor texts, track location

9 to 5 Mac ^ | April 18, 2016 | By Ben Lovejoy

[DBrow]

I agree but let’s control all the variables to make a good experiment. What if they tweaked a phone to enable certain things that a COTS phone would not have enabled?

And let’s see more than one phone.

I run experiments all the time (pays the rent) and this is the sort of thing a peer reviewer would catch right off the bat.

[Swordmaker]

And let’s see more than one phone.

I run experiments all the time (pays the rent) and this is the sort of thing a peer reviewer would catch right off the bat.

Usually, when you see Apple in the headlines, it's because it will garner more headline views and clicks. No one clicks on a headline that says "Hackers use Congressman’s Android phone to demo ability to listen into calls, monitor texts, track location". Just as no one would click on a headline that says "Hackers use Congressman’s Windows PC to demo their ability to install malware." It's sort of an expected thing, a "Dog bites Man" headline.