That missing safeguard matters: All Apple products use Data Execution Prevention, or DEP, a feature that prevents malicious code from running its own commands.

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The first is known as data execution prevention, or DEP, a measure designed to prevent hackers from hijacking programs by sneaking their own commands into what is meant to be harmless content like pictures or text.

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