▲ 62 ▼ AirDrop cracked by China, revealing phone number and email (9to5mac.com) submitted 2 years ago* by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to c/technology@beehaw.org 4 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 27 points 2 years ago 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 permalink fedilink source
[–] WebTheWitted@beehaw.org 11 points 2 years ago (1 child) 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 permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] bl4kers@beehaw.org 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) 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/ permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] WebTheWitted@beehaw.org 1 point 2 years 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] bl4kers@beehaw.org 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) 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/ permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] WebTheWitted@beehaw.org 1 point 2 years 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] WebTheWitted@beehaw.org 1 point 2 years 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. permalink fedilink source parent
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