kate congerVerifizierter Account

i have questions.

specifically, about phones, not so much about this particular occurence of phone hackery. I'll elaborate (because I'm sure I'm not the only one!)

so someone wants to hack your phone. they decide their vector is SMS. so they send you an SMS with .. what? a malformed message? a malformed video that comporomises ... the sms message reader? does the phone's baseband process the sms message before that app does?

what im getting at is "if youre using a non-default app to handle incoming sms messages, are you still just as vulnerable?" - because many folks are using like, hangouts, or google duo, or signal or some other non-default sms app on their phones these days

so what im curious about is - are the attackers at the behest of the victims choice of sms app? or does it not matter at all because the hax attack the baseband 'meat' before the sms app ever matters?