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Kajigaya Takuya, known as a “home-appliance comedian,” pointed out on Chihara Junior’s YouTube show that it’s “dangerous” for fellow comedian Zabungle Kato to keep using his iPhone 8. His reasoning: the rise of AI has made it much easier to hijack devices. When the story was reposted to 5ch’s Geino/Sports News+ board, comments piled up arguing that routers and how people handle their personal data are bigger problems than device hijacking, and that simply replacing the battery is enough to keep an old phone going without worry. The thread ended up split between people who felt the danger itself was never spelled out concretely, and those defending Kato, saying he has a point.
Kajigaya Takuya, the talent known as a “home-appliance comedian,” appeared on the official YouTube channel “Chihara Junior YouTube,” updated on the night of the 28th. He shared his view that continuing to use an old version of iPhone is “dangerous.”
This episode featured a barbecue hosted around comedian Chihara Junior. Comedian Zabungle Kato, invited to the get-together, was asked point-blank in the flow of conversation what he thought about the iPhone 8 he’d been using for years — “What do you think?”
Kato said, “I love the iPhone, but honestly it does everything I need — it’s plenty (functionally),” and “I’m not really having any problems.” Hearing this, Kajigaya commented, “Just going by first impressions, that’s dangerous.”
Source: sirabee.com / Original article here
What people said
saying "man, that sucks"
— that's the whole package.
and you getting treated like the criminal.
Kato doesn't get it at all.
Everyone connected to him is also at risk of getting hacked.
I use the yellow 5c I bought back in high school as a stand-in for an iPod touch too.
My bathroom speaker dock is old too, only fits phones up to about the size of a 6, so I use it strictly for listening to Apple Music and watching YouTube in the bath.
Got the battery swapped two years ago too, so it's still going strong.
would come out of an Ecuadorian slum unscathed.
AQUOS phones are kind to an old man's wallet.
— the type who rushes out to switch phones over that kind of reaction is probably the type who falls for scams.
then no matter how far iOS advances, a future's coming where its security gets cracked instantly.
but if you're just making calls and browsing the web a little, you probably don't want to switch.
If anything, you should worry more about falling for scare-tactic ads lol
For "iPon" (iPhone), pretty much anything from the 5s onward is basically fine, yo.
An 8 must be super inconvenient by comparison.
Is everyone else already on 26 or 27?
The fact that he's still using an 8 in the first place means "dangerous" doesn't even enter into it.
He's clearly just using it as a plain phone, not really as a smartphone.
The whole premise of "he's got all sorts of personal info loaded on there" is wrong to begin with.
Came away thinking "huh?" — hard to tell the difference. A big standalone camera is still stronger.
Right now it's an AI that's busy rummaging through secondhand bookstores,
so it probably hasn't gotten around to iPhones yet, has it?
Background and Key Points of This Debate
iPhone security doesn’t really degrade because of the hardware’s age itself — it drops off sharply once the device stops receiving OS updates. The iPhone 8 only supports up to iOS 16, and has gone without subsequent vulnerability patches ever since. Kajigaya Takuya’s comment appears to have this “end of support” issue in mind, but on the thread, the phrase “AI could hijack it” came across as vague, giving the impression that alarm spread on its own without any technical backing. Reactions split depending on whether people treated the hijacking risk as genuine harm, or saw “more realistic entry points” — like router vulnerabilities or being lured to scam sites — as the bigger threat, with the latter view being more dominant on 5ch. Another point of disagreement was that with an older model like the iPhone 8, if it’s used for a limited purpose such as calls only or music only, actual exposure of personal information is minimal — meaning people’s baseline assumptions about the level of risk differed from person to person.
*This article is compiled as excerpts and a summary from the 5ch (Geino/Sports News+) thread “Appliance-obsessed comedian: old iPhones are “incredibly dangerous,” “switch right away” — with the rise of AI, “they’re easy to hijack now”.”
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