On: Identifying backdoors, attack points, and surveillance mechanisms in iOS devices

[simscitizen]

The packet tracer is an interface to a tcpdump-like facility that's used for debugging. It requires you to connect the device to a Mac host. The interface is publicly documented: https://developer.apple.com/library/Mac/qa/qa1176/_index.htm...

[ibisum → simscitizen]

Come on, this is a full packet dump of whatever you want. So .. why is it enabled by default, why isn't it in the developer image (only) if its so vital, and so on.

This was intentionally architected for exploit.