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		pjmlp on Sept 24, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Disclosure of three 0-day iOS vulnerabilities The whole point of Swift is to be next generation Objective-C and C on Apple platforms, no need to drop down to other languages. In fact, the prof of concepts shown in the article are all written in Swift.

babesh on Sept 24, 2021 [–]

I wasn't clear. It is dynamically constructing an API call that Objective-C allows. The objc_msgSend stuff.

pjmlp on Sept 24, 2021 | [–]

Which you can call directly from Swift.

babesh on Sept 24, 2021 | | [–]

You are right.

https://steipete.com/posts/calling-super-at-runtime/

illusionofchaos on Sept 24, 2021 | | [–]

Look at the code of gamed exploit that I've uploaded to GitHub, the app is written in Swift and it calls Objective-C runtime functions from it

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