How can this secure iPhone can be hacked by a superuser?

asked and ignored earlier(dont worry im used to it) but i have a screenshot if anyone would like to suggest how this oh so secure iphone can be hacked by a superuser ( i know who it is but cant prove it) i just want it to stop!!!!! id like to add i dont use i tunes or icloud one last thing i bought a new laptop brand new not used and this same remote trojan crap was on it when i set it up?! can anyone tell me why these superuser developers are allowed to invade at will?!


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Posted on May 19, 2023 5:16 PM

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Posted on May 16, 2024 6:53 AM

No, that's not what a superuser is at all.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superuser


In Unix terms, that's the root user accout, which the user has absolutely no access to since Catalina. You will also find an account named wheel. Which refers to an account for the OS itself. As in the "the big wheel", or "the big cheese". Something has to have permission to perform any task. That's the OS itself.


Another long time use for the term superuser is simply someone who is very adept at using computers in general. That doesn't automatically mean a criminal.


As far as all of the links in your next post, that is all entirely a waste of your time. Analytics are only useful to Apple's engineers. They mean nothing to anyone else. Stop reading them.


As long as you're not using outdated WiFi security protocols, or a weak password, WiFi is no less secure than anything else.


You need to stop reading the mountains of fear junk on the Internet. The only thing you're succeeding at is driving an unnecessary paranoia.

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May 16, 2024 6:53 AM in response to Biteme707

No, that's not what a superuser is at all.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superuser


In Unix terms, that's the root user accout, which the user has absolutely no access to since Catalina. You will also find an account named wheel. Which refers to an account for the OS itself. As in the "the big wheel", or "the big cheese". Something has to have permission to perform any task. That's the OS itself.


Another long time use for the term superuser is simply someone who is very adept at using computers in general. That doesn't automatically mean a criminal.


As far as all of the links in your next post, that is all entirely a waste of your time. Analytics are only useful to Apple's engineers. They mean nothing to anyone else. Stop reading them.


As long as you're not using outdated WiFi security protocols, or a weak password, WiFi is no less secure than anything else.


You need to stop reading the mountains of fear junk on the Internet. The only thing you're succeeding at is driving an unnecessary paranoia.

May 19, 2023 5:41 PM in response to Kurt Lang

Analytics are only useful to Apple's engineers. And even they run them through an app to parse the data into something that makes sense. They are completely useless to anyone else.


The only thing to note at all is where it says "userID" : 501,


That's you. In Unix terms, the first user account created is 501, the next is 502, and so on. Since an iPhone or iPad is a single user device, there will always only be a user 501. Which again, is YOU. Not some unknown person.

May 19, 2023 8:10 PM in response to Saegzz

After you take a college level course in operating system design and another in cybersecurity I can explain in detail, but the short answer that iOS has a “sandbox” architecture. That means that each app has its own sandbox to “play” in where it stores its data, and it can’t access data in any other app’s sandbox. And no app can access the operating system’s sandbox. There’s much more, but it is based on this model.

May 16, 2024 2:53 AM in response to Shewolf1989

i have the same stuff on my iphone . If you ask me Iphones have basically tured into androids. Open mic

Shewolf1989 wrote:

asked and ignored earlier(dont worry im used to it) but i have a screenshot if anyone would like to suggest how this oh so secure iphone can be hacked by a superuser ( i know who it is but cant prove it) i just want it to stop!!!!! id like to add i dont use i tunes or icloud one last thing i bought a new laptop brand new not used and this same remote trojan crap was on it when i set it up?! can anyone tell me why these superuser developers are allowed to invade at will?!
https://discussions.apple.com/content/attachment/9b64f37e-3e82-4418-8032-e32184e995e5
https://discussions.apple.com/content/attachment/fcb6ae83-81ad-4977-9e5c-36539698df57
https://discussions.apple.com/content/attachment/cd12d00b-c097-4be9-8b66-5db918535b9c
https://discussions.apple.com/content/attachment/14b0250c-5841-41e4-84fe-c10c862f4c49
https://discussions.apple.com/content/attachment/a132a119-3db7-460a-9f62-f452eb4cdcd5
https://discussions.apple.com/content/attachment/5223b444-c1f0-49f7-aee0-e9ff1a8e878e

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