Some time ago, we explained that Apple had developed the Lockdown mode –quarantine– that allowed iPhones to work with a reduced set of features and functions, something important for government leaders who could have been victims of malware like Pegasus.
However, as we can read in 9to5Mac, It seems that this can be somewhat counterproductive, Well, among all the types of locks that the iPhone performs when it is in this mode, is the impossibility of loading personalized fonts from the different websites that we access.
Thus, the website can detect that we are using the iPhone’s Lockdown mode, and likewise, it has our IP address—assuming we’re not using a VPN—so we can be identified and tracked. As John Ozbay, CEO of privacy company Cryptee, explains, Apple had to decide between security and privacy, and chose the security of its users.
The risk lies in the fact that we have to activate the Lockdown mode on purpose, and considering the nature of this system, we are indicating that we are a potentially interesting target for a nationwide attackerso we carry a kind of sign indicating that.
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Jordi Bercial
Avid technology and electronics enthusiast. I’ve been messing around with computer components almost since I could walk. I started working at Geeknetic after winning a contest on their forum about writing hardware articles. Drift, mechanics and photography lover. Feel free to leave a comment on my articles if you have any questions.
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