AirDrop cracked by China, revealing phone number and email
AirDrop cracked by China, revealing phone number and email
In a significant breach of Apple’s privacy measures, a new report says that AirDrop was cracked by the Chinese government,...
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Why would China announce their zero day exploit to the Internet? FUDD.
"You can't trust those iPhones, only trust Chinese company phones". -- CCP, probably
Ahh, interesting to read about the technique, thanks for the link. For anyone else curious, here's a TLDR quote:
In 2021, researchers at Germany's Technical University of Darmstadt reported that they had devised practical ways to crack what Apple calls the identity hashes used to conceal identities while AirDrop determines if a nearby person is in the contacts of another. One of the researchers' attack methods relies on rainbow tables.