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> Lockdown Mode breaks call recording

Do you mean screen recording? What are the symptoms of the bug?


Nope, call recording. Not sure how universal this is, but phone call recording immediately stops with the "This call is no longer being recorded" effect afterwards.

> At any point your iphone sends an http request to a compromised site, by add, link, embedded, etc. your device will be exploited.

Would it help to disable Javascript on untrusted sites via Brave?


> the most secure

Except for withholding iOS 18 security fixes when public exploits are fixed in iOS 26.


Even then. I'll take a leaky iOS 18 over pretty much any leaky Android or internet-connected TV or whatever.

iPhones are still the least bad option, for regular people who aren't planning to solder anything, select their boot loader on launch, or recompile a kernel.


My Pixel 8 Pro is more secure than your iOS 18 handset Apple don't care about.

> to pay some rubes to maintain old stuff

Can LLMs backport fixes to stable branches?


Well, Apple already fixed the code, Apple is just choosing not to release it for most iPhones.

> Starting with iOS 18.7.3, they only release patch versions for the iPhone XS and XR. They've repeated this, through to 18.7.6 now.

  iPhone XS/XR: the only Usable + Secure iPhone in 2026

Is the full exploit chain functional on iPhone 17 MIE/EMTE silicon with Lockdown Mode enabled?

No, because Lockdown Mode disabled JIT which is a part of this exploit chain.


Small sizes are on secondary market for ~$1/GB.

Which is a bargain compared to what DRAM costs today. If you just include the bare minimum of DRAM for a successful boot and immediately set up the entire "small" Optane drive as swap, that's a viable workstation-class system for comparative peanuts. You can't do this with NAND because the write workload of swap kills the media (I suppose it becomes viable if you monitor SMART wearout indicators and heavily overprovision the storage to leverage the drive's pSLC mode, but you're still treating $~0.10/GB hardware as a consumable and that will cost you) and of course you can't do it with spinning rust because the media is too slow.

Related: "High-bandwidth flash progress and future" (15 comments), https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46700384

In an era of RAM shortages and quarterly price increases, Optane remains viable for swap and CPU/GPU cache.


Yeah, I've wondered if we might see a revival of this kind of technology.

I’ve been considering buying 8x64g models and setting them as equal priority swap disks (to mitigate the low throughput) for this exact reason.

Can confirm doing so is awesome. Get some slightly bigger ones and partition them for additional use as zil. They're extremely satisfying to use, and depressing to remember that we'll never see their like again.

in an era of shortages, if there was an optane factory today ready to print money...

Secondary market surplus pricing (~$1/GB) value accrues to the buyer..

> (~$1/GB)

Isn't that actually crazy good, even insane value for the performance and DWPD you get with Optane, especially with DRAM being ~$15/GB or so? I don't think ~$1/GB NAND is anywhere that good on durability, even if the raw performance is quite possibly higher.


> curious lack of any data regarding the actual accuracy of the system

No lack of entrackment data generated by [edit] d̶i̶g̶i̶t̶a̶l̶ ̶t̶w̶i̶n̶ github repo of "the system".


"digital twin"?

Is there a simulation that has been documented to have the identical behavior and flight characteristics as the real thing? Does not seem like it.

If there is a difference, it is not a twin.


Thanks for the correction.

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