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Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish ·
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AirDrop cracked by China, revealing phone number and email

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AirDrop cracked by China, revealing phone number and email

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Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish ·
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AirDrop cracked by China, revealing phone number & email
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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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  • HeartyBeast@kbin.social
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    The headline should be ‘China claims to have cracked Airdrop.

    There are two possible reasons for the claim - only one of which is that they have

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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

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      It’s not a zero day: https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/01/hackers-can-id-unique-apple-airdrop-users-chinese-authorities-claim-to-do-just-that/

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        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.

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