That a good, cautious stance. That said, thus may not be a good example of it.
We don't know the imessage bug, but a big one was patched in ios 9.3.3, released July 18, 2016. Meanwhile, the article says this exploit got a lot of people in 2016/2017.
So, presumably simply updating software would have protected a lot of the victims in this case.
The higher up in adversary skill level you go, the less this works. But up to a reasonably high level simply having up to date software thwarts most adversaries, no? And conversely, if you have very out of date software, even incompetent adversaries can break in.
We don't know the imessage bug, but a big one was patched in ios 9.3.3, released July 18, 2016. Meanwhile, the article says this exploit got a lot of people in 2016/2017.
So, presumably simply updating software would have protected a lot of the victims in this case.
The higher up in adversary skill level you go, the less this works. But up to a reasonably high level simply having up to date software thwarts most adversaries, no? And conversely, if you have very out of date software, even incompetent adversaries can break in.