Kernel buffer overflow exposes iPhone 11 Pro to radio based attacks

[Paul Backus]

On Wednesday, 9 December 2020 at 11:46:41 UTC, Dukc wrote:
>
> It might have some benefit: If non-annotated C libraries are 
> considered `@safe`, it'll mean that not-so-quality code is 
> using compromised `@safe`. Bad. But if they are considered 
> `@system`, not-so-quality code will not be using `@safe` AT 
> ALL. Even worse.

Using compromised @safe is much, much worse than not using @safe 
at all. Not using @safe at all means you still have the option of 
migrating to @safe in the future. If you're using compromised 
@safe, you have no migration path.