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China claims it has cracked Apple Airdrop’s encryption to identify senders | CNN Business (www.cnn.com)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Thing is, the actual airdrop file transfer should be gated behind a 2048-bit RSA hash.

I’m curious to see what the security vulnerability is and how long it will remain open. China has been thirsting to find one for years.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

I haven’t read anything about cracking the data itself though, just being able to identify the phone number of a sender. The infos they give is just too vague at this point.