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willstrafach
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About willstrafach
Chief Executive Officer @ Guardian (https://guardianapp.com).
previously: founder of "Chronic Dev Team" & worked on many years of iOS jailbreaking solutions (24kPwn, absinthe, corona, greenpois0n, etc).
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Comment #41094148
“Facebook Research” was the Onavo codebase, under a different name, signed by Facebook’s Enterprise certificate.
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Comment #38674976
iOS devices must be activated to use them. This is indeed stored in a database. AppleCare and third-party repair centers can query activation information using GSX. You are correct…
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Comment #31649637
This may help: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/icloud-passwords/p...
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Comment #31610305
> That said, doesn’t iOS notify you when an app wants to use location services? Did all of these users just opt into that? That seems crazy, if so. Not so crazy. Local news, weathe…
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Comment #31610129
They have some pretty bad past practices: https://www.zdnet.com/article/accuweather-caught-sending-geo... And they have continued, off-and-on, to use other location-collecting SDKs…
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Comment #30704694
I think the pitch here is “Semi-managed WireGuard peer provisioning and NAT punching as a service” usable by anyone who may not otherwise have a clue how WireGuard works (eg. frien…
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Comment #30695336
How would that work? Connections are mainly peer-to-peer with Tailscale. An attack (I suppose pushing new key pairs to specific peers and pointing them through a malicious endpoint…
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Comment #30510043
This may make sense if they were replying via e-mail to the issue.
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Comment #30305982
Different poster here but just curious: Are you a Deutsche Telekom user, by chance?
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Comment #28761490
The face:b00c part is in the Interface ID, so this did not even need a large block (Though I am sure they have one).
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Comment #28298219
In current versions? What permission is this?
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Comment #27701869
.icu, .club, and a few other gTLDs can often be found for sale at $1-2/year, so they are used by entities in need of low cost disposable domains.
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Comment #26970463
That is incorrect, Corellium does not ship Apple code.
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Comment #26188432
If it had a T2, that will store the Apple ID.
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Comment #25432365
1. You’re allowed to use IDFA. But users will now have to allow access, as a permission dialog will pop up first. 2. The IDFA is just a simple static UUID. It cannot do a very good…
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Comment #25404714
Pager messages collected on September 11, 2001. They are also a type of communication which is transmitted without encryption.
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Comment #24828179
The list can be found here: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210770
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Comment #24681192
This one is well worth a try: https://www.amazon.com/Remote-Control-Alternative-Replacemen...
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Comment #24327312
Do you have a source on Apple “killing IDFA”? My understanding is that they are going to simply show a consent dialog before allowing an app to access the IDFA, similar to what the…
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Comment #23910984
This exists, though not exactly as you describe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASmallWorld
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Comment #23083419
> There is nothing stopping someone for using this technique to publish an app in the AppStore officially. It has not happened though. Only app which has been in the App Store and …
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Comment #23081873
They would be caught if this was submitted to the App Store. This applies to self-signed apps by those with a developer certificate.
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Comment #22498159
Not replace, rather, you boot Linux over USB. That is why they describe the ephemeral device use case.
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Comment #22495746
Source code: https://github.com/corellium/projectsandcastle/ The backstory is also incredibly interesting: https://projectsandcastle.org/history