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Title: AirDrop cracked by China, revealing phone number and email address of sender
Post by: HCK on January 15, 2024, 04:05:07 pm
AirDrop cracked by China, revealing phone number and email address of sender

<div class="feat-image">(https://9to5mac.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/01/AirDrop-cracked-by-China.jpg?quality=82&strip=all&w=1600)</div><p>In a significant breach of <a href="https://9to5mac.com/guides/aapl/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Apple’s[/url] <a href="https://9to5mac.com/guides/privacy/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">privacy[/url] measures, a new report says that <a href="https://9to5mac.com/guides/airdrop/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">AirDrop[/url] was cracked by the <a href="https://9to5mac.com/guides/china/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Chinese[/url] government, to reveal the phone number and email address of senders.</p>



<p>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 … </p>



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