@ programming I had asked a question regarding how could phones get possibly hacked, and this was the response I got

I honestly don’t see anything wrong with this comment on a Lemmy thread.

What were you looking for in a response? Cited sources? Technical overview of recent exploits? A more newbie friendly ELI5?

Also, did you mention what you were looking for? If you just posed a question leaving it free form then I think it’s absolutely fine. If you requested something more specific then “eeeeh… it’s strangers on the internet” I guess, you can only get so much.

Your original post was in c/linuxmemes , found here. Your follow-up question about phone security was a comment under that post. Although someone passing by might happen to be a senior pentester with a major mobile OS vendor, that is a community for posting funny memes.

To ask the commenters at-large there for a detailed, well-elucidated answer to “how does phone hacking work?” is to expect too much.

Fortunately, this is Lemmy so you just have to find the right community to ask, and to set your expectations accordingly.

People talk about security here occasionally, though there are places to discuss it. Also, bugs are the most common source of vulnerabilities (though social engineering is a much more common type of attack), so the response seems reasonable to me.

Regarding hacking, for white hat I believe there are communities, though I’d imagine there’s overlap with cybersecurity communities. I don’t know of, nor would I recommend, anything black hat.

You posted in a meme community and filled your comments with emoji, I don’t imagine anyone thought you were being serious

Ah btw, is that media scanner service now fixed in Android? Heard of no critical vuln related to it for a while now.

Look up any of the NGO spyware like Pegasus.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegasus_(spyware)