how can an iPhone be so hard to hack when entire banking systems and other massive companies can be successfully targeted?
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Tee iphone’s base architecture is very very secure. To put it simply, if Apple does not sign your code, the hardware won’t run it.
Now this is an extreme simplification, there are ways to force an IPhone to run your code by injecting it into memory leaks, but that’s a long, complicated path. In most cases you can just be sure that only code that Apple wants to run, will run,
Windows and linux do not have this privilege or burden. Developers can just write code, and it will run. This is vital for a company as they write their own software to operate their company. They can’t wait for weeks to have a 3rd party sign all their code.
So as any code that you want runs, anyone can write malware and figure out how to get it on the device. This opens up tons of routs to attacks.
If you want to know more about code signing, that’s a separate question.
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