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AirDrop cracked by China, revealing phone number and email (9to5mac.com)
submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to c/technology@beehaw.org
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[–] WebTheWitted@beehaw.org 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] bl4kers@beehaw.org 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] WebTheWitted@beehaw.org 1 points 10 months ago

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.