The Mystery of CVE-2023-38606

Description: After everyone is updated with the state of my still-continuing work on SpinRite 6.1, and after I've shared a bit of feedback from our listeners, the entire balance of this first podcast of 2024 will be invested in the close and careful examination of the technical details surrounding something that has never before been found in Apple's custom proprietary silicon. As we will all see and understand by the time we're finished here today, it is something that can only be characterized as a deliberately designed, implemented, and protected backdoor that was intended to be, and was, let loose and present in the wild. After we all understand what Apple has done through five successive generations of their silicon, today's podcast ends, as it must, by posing a single one-word question: Why?

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SHOW TEASE: It's time for Security Now!. Steve Gibson is here, and we have perhaps the most interesting story. What a way to kick off 2024, our first episode of the new year. And Steve breaks down what looks to be a massive conspiracy around the security of the last five generations of iPhone. The details coming up on Security Now! - listen to MP3 (links above)

[NOTE FROM FREEDOM'S PHOENIX READER...In case you haven't heard, it is now public that Apple had backdoors manufactured into their hardware for the past five generations of iPhone]