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Ars Technica also has a pretty detailed write-up of the attack. That was pretty crazy.
And it’s also a reminder that, if you are running for some high-profile political office or are working for someone who is running for that office, you should enable lockdown mode on your iPhone/iPad/Mac. Lockdown mode wouldn’t have stopped what happened to John Podesta in 2016, but it would’ve stopped this attack.
Define “irony”: the company that got into their current position by pushing almost all of their competition to the sidelines now complains that someone else pushed them to the sidelines.