WebTheWitted

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AirDrop cracked by China, revealing phone number & email⁩ ⁨⁨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.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AirDrop cracked by China, revealing phone number & email⁩ ⁨⁨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

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The activist who’s taking on artificial intelligence in the courts: ‘This is the fight of our lives’⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Great power competition / military industrial complex . AI is a pretty vague term, but practically it could be used to describe drone swarming technology, cyber warfare, etc.