AirDrop cracked by China, revealing phone number and email (9to5mac.com)

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[-] [email protected] 1 points 8 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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