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    1 year 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.