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The AirDrop flaw exploited by China, explained (blog.cryptographyengineering.com)

submitted 10 months ago by reboot6675@sopuli.xyz to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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The news was already posted here last week, but I found this great technical explanation of the flaw. Long story short: Apple is using bad cryptography. They got alerted by researchers back in 2019 but didn't fix it.

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[-] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 14 points 10 months ago

Like they sat on (and still haven't resolved) the iMessage issues they've known about for years.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38537444

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