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Here's What Apple Retail's New Machine to Update iPhones in the Box Looks Like
(www.macrumors.com)
this post was submitted on 27 Mar 2024
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Apple are much much smarter than me, so I'm sure have mitigated against this, but this feels like a securirty nightmare waiting to happen:
Bad guy gets hold of the technology, works out an exploit to send unofficial update and then "patches" a containership full of iPhones.
Trusted certificate exchange negates that scenario.
I’m sure it’s fool-proof and no state-level actor will ever find a way around it
It’s basically the same as updating the iPhone over usb. There has not been a chance to have the iPhone run a modified iOS update in over 10 years now iirc.
It is not like people have not tried.