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WebTheWitted@beehaw.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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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bl4kers@beehaw.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
It’s not a zero day: arstechnica.com/…/hackers-can-id-unique-apple-air…

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- WebTheWitted@beehaw.org ⁨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.
  
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