These Apple engineers are finding innovative ways to protect users from a terrifying array of threats.
For years, Apple has made privacy and security one of the iPhone’s principal selling points. But a fraction of users—including dissidents, activists, and journalists—have reason to obsess over it. Governments and others with ill intent have targeted these groups with sophisticated spyware to gain access to messages, location data, and other information that can compromise not just privacy but their physical safety. “These are attackers who are willing to spend untold millions and millions and millions of dollars going after extremely small numbers of people,” says Apple’s head of security engineering and architecture Ivan Krstić.
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