> We strongly urge all journalists, activists, and politicians to upgrade to an iPhone that was released in the past two years with an A12 or higher CPU.
This makes no sense. The data of these VIPs is not in (more) danger due to this new jailbreak appearing. It sounds like a cheap trick to make people buy new phones.
"checkm8 doesn't allow law enforcement to decrypt the phone, but it does allow them to rootkit it with 30 seconds of unattended access. Once it's unlocked by the user they'd get everything they need."
That sounds like something more than a little worrying to the listed groups of people, no?
This makes no sense. The data of these VIPs is not in (more) danger due to this new jailbreak appearing. It sounds like a cheap trick to make people buy new phones.