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AirDrop cracked by China, revealing phone number & email
(9to5mac.com)
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this post was submitted on 09 Jan 2024
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Or China is just saying they cracked Air Drop to try to scare protestors from using this feature. If they cracked it, why would they make it public that they cracked it when they could catch dissidents using it without their knowledge? Not to mention making it public puts pressure on Apple to patch it, which would destroy their access. Doesn’t make much sense to make this public if it is true.
It would be easy for apple to debunk this if it wasn't true. I'd stay away from it and use proven secure means.
There’s no way to prove that something is secure. (It reduces to the halting problem.)
You can still have more certainty or less. If it's open-source - it doesn't guarantee safety by any means, sure, but if it's proprietary like this one - you don't even get a chance to check what's going on.
Just make a machine to prove it /s
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That's it, job done. We have our answer, everyone!
Nothing is ever completely secure if it's connected to the internet. It just likely isn't worth it to hack into. That's why macs used to be "virus proof".
Well, yes, because Windows was a much more lucrative target.