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Hey parents, you know those calls you get or used to get from your kids' school,

the ones that started with the words, everything's fine,

letting you know that while there was no emergency, they were really playing a little loose with the word

fine. Remember those calls? There was an interesting security story on TechCrunch late last

week. According to Apple, according to TechCrunch, the Cooper Tino Company is not aware of any

successful mercenary spyware attacks against a lockdown-enabled Apple device.

If you're not familiar, the security show that I used to produce, the checklist, first

covered lockdown mode on episode 287,

way back in the middle of 2022. We joked then that lockdown mode works by taking the radical

step of turning your smartphone into a regular phone. Protection's built in included

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