2024-01-09 16:32:39
The Chinese government successfully cracked the hidden fields of AirDrop, thereby locking the mobile phone number and email address of the disseminator of “inappropriate information”
In 2022, Apple took the lead in adding iOS to iOS in mainland China. AirDrop time limit. It will limit the time AirDrop is open to “everyone” for transfer to ten minutes at a time, and by default, the device will not accept any files sent via AirDrop. Although the reason Apple gave for the change at the time was to “reduce unwelcome file sharing” (there was indeed a lot of spam), and later promoted this change to the world, in the eyes of many people this move was to encourage China. Government censorship.
Regardless of whether Apple submitted to the Chinese government at the time, the latter has clearly taken precautions against AirDrop in recent years.And according to an article published inBeijing Municipal Justice BureauAccording to the article on the official website, it seems that the anonymity attribute of AirDrop can no longer be preserved. A few days ago, the Beijing Wangshendongjian Judicial Appraisal Office accepted the entrustment of the public security agency and extracted and analyzed the AirDrop records of the mobile phones sent for inspection by the person who reported a previous “inappropriate information” dissemination case. After analyzing the iPhone device logs, the appraiser discovered fields related to email and mobile phone numbers recorded in the form of hidden hash values.Then use itrainbow tableConverting the ciphertext into original text successfully locked the number and email address of the sender of the message.
“The Beijing Wangshendongjian Judicial Appraisal Institute’s forensic appraisal of the case of improper information disseminated through AirDrop on mobile phones broke through the technical difficulties of anonymous AirDrop traceability, improved the efficiency and accuracy of case detection, and prevented the further spread and potential negative impact of inappropriate remarks. ” the Justice Bureau wrote on its official website. Apple has yet to comment on this matter. But for them, who have always emphasized product privacy and security, this should not be good news.
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