During the coronavirus lockdown, professional hacker Ian Beer, a member of Google’s hacking team Project Zero, developed a way to remotely hijack iPhones — simply by pointing a homebrewed antenna at them.
Beer’s technique requires only about $100 worth of equipment,
Motherboard reports, and granted him total control of whatever phones he targeted. This is Beer’s specialty, but the fact remains that his comparatively-simple hack made the iPhone’s security measures
seem disturbingly trivial.
