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Phones are extremely hard to hack and getting harder. The phone hacking companies only bother targeting an extremely limited set of people because once it becomes widespread, the whole exploit chain gets patched and you have to spend millions of dollars developing a new one.

With ARM Memory Tagging Extension becoming common on phones now it's getting borderline impossible to hack them.


Thank god the movie is just a movie :)
...or you can just give someone a "smart" device that requires then to install an app with lots of unnecessary permissions to use it.

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