Apple Finally Patches Their Shitty Ancient Hardware Against Exploits That Shouldn’t Exist

Oh joy. Just when you thought it was safe to put your grandmother’s fossilized iPhone 6s in a museum display case, Apple decides to grace us with yet another fucking security update for devices that belong in the goddamn Stone Age.

Apparently, there’s some shitshow called “Coruna exploits” running around that lets any script-kiddie with a pulse root your precious Apple toy and turn it into a glorified Bitcoin miner for North Korea. And wouldn’t you know it, these vulnerabilities affect iOS 15—because apparently, we need to support hardware released when dinosaurs still roamed the Earth.

So here’s the deal, you cheapskates: If you’re still clinging to that iPhone 7 because “it still works fine,” congratulations, you’ve been walking around with a device more compromised than a politician’s browser history. Apple pushed out emergency patches to fix these gaping security holes that they left wide open like a barn door in a hurricane.

The exploits apparently allow arbitrary code execution, which is tech-speak for “someone can completely own your shit and there’s fuck-all you can do about it.” Unless, of course, you update your damn phone instead of ignoring that notification for six months because you’re a lazy git who thinks cybersecurity happens to other people.

Look, I don’t give a flying fuck what excuses you’ve got. “But the new iOS will slow down my phone!” Tough shit. Security trumps your Candy Crush performance, you absolute walnut. Either patch your device right fucking now or accept that you’re essentially handing your banking passwords to every hacker from here to Shanghai. Your call.

The affected devices include the iPhone 6s, 7, first-gen SE, and various iPads that are old enough to vote. If you’re running one of these dinosaurs, go to Settings > General > Software Update immediately, or don’t come crying to me when your nudes end up on a Discord server in Minsk.

Read the original article here if you absolutely must

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True story: User calls me yesterday in a panic because her iPhone 6s “feels weird.” I remote in and find thirty-six pending security updates, three malware infections, and a keylogger that has more stored passwords than LastPass. “I didn’t update because I heard it slows down old phones,” she whines. I told her, “Listen here, you magnificent idiot—that phone is already slower than a sloth on ketamine, and now it’s broadcasting your credit card details to some basement dweller in Odesa. Update the goddamn thing or I’ll brick it myself with a hammer.”

She updated. Phone still works. Miracles happen.

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