• Ebber
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    3 days ago

    How come it’s only Apple devices that are affected and not the others?

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      2 days ago

      Are apple devices the only phones that use the Texas Instruments ACE3 controller?

      • Yes. This controller was specifically created for Apple and it’s a proprietary chip.

        No other manufacturer uses it, and thus no other manufacturer has these security flaws. Apple didn’t rely on existing, tried and tested controllers but had to make something proprietary and ‘special’, and the fucked up in doing so.

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          2 days ago

          They had used the ACE2 in previous models, which didn’t have these flaws. What was the difference?