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   9to5Mac (9to5mac@mastodon.online)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jan-2024 21:59:59 JST 9to5Mac

   AirDrop cracked by China, revealing phone number and email address of sender https://9to5mac.com/2024/01/09/airdrop-cracked-by-china/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

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     pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist: (p@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jan-2024 21:59:59 JST pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist:

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     > In a significant breach of Apple’s privacy measures, a new report says that AirDrop was cracked by the Chinese government, to reveal the phone number and email address of senders.
     > The anonymity of AirDrop was one of the reasons it has been commonly used by activists to share information about protests, and other information censored by the government …
     
     Any security researcher does this, it's "$name demonstrates security flaw in AirDrop". This is "oh shit china has compromised protests and activism and community organizers". Apparently this "9to5Mac" employs player-haters.
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     @polarisera reposted your post (polarisera@spinster.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jan-2024 22:26:55 JST @polarisera reposted your post

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     @p @9to5Mac Americans will only care if you make it about white supremacy. White supremacists in the bad law enforcement agencies (not bad: NSA, CIA, FBI), can now find out the phone numbers of brown climate protestors trying to bring his 1000 male friends into the country to decolonize it.

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