A Chinese tech company has been able to crack the encryption around Apple’s Airdrop wireless file sharing function to identify people who used the feature to send “inappropriate information” in the Beijing subway, according to the city’s Justice Bureau.
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.
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So don’t go to China and if you do don’t send any important but unencrypted files via short-distance signal from one iPhone to another iPhone, gotcha.
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.
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.