how can an iPhone be so hard to hack when entire banking systems and other massive companies can be successfully targeted?
In: Technology
Apple is a monoculture. That means that only specific, Apple-targeting, techniques work.
It’s not true that “entire banking systems” have been hacked. Some companies have had some disclosure problems, where their transaction records leaked out, but it’s not like hackers just transferred all the money out of their bank accounts. That mostly happens in movies. That said, there are many companies with many software systems. Hackers don’t care if the take money from Target or Walmart, so they can attack all the companies and just see where they get lucky. Attacking Apple is harder, because there is only the one Apple.
Latest Answers