iPhones have been exposing your unique MAC despite Apple’s promises otherwise
iPhones have been exposing your unique MAC despite Apple’s promises otherwise
“From the get-go, this feature was useless,” researcher says of feature put into iOS 14.
Now fixed in the latest ios update
On Wednesday, Apple released iOS 17.1. Among the various fixes was a patch for a vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-42846, which prevented the privacy feature from working. Tommy Mysk, one of the two security researchers Apple credited with discovering and reporting the vulnerability (Talal Haj Bakry was the other), told Ars that he tested all recent iOS releases and found the flaw dates back to version 14, released in September 2020.
How did Apple not notice this over 3 years?
I AM SORRY! I CANNOT HEAR YOUR BUG REPORTS OVER THE MONEY PRINTER THAT IS IPHONE HARDWARE DEVELOPMENT! WHAT WAS IT THAT YOU NEEDED AGAIN?! PUT RIDICULOUSLY EXPENSIVE TITANIUM IN THE IPHONE?! WE WILL HAVE IT DONE YESTERDAY!!