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Identifying backdoors, attack points, and surveillance mechanisms in iOS devices

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Re: Identifying backdoors, attack points, and surveillance mechanisms in iOS devices

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Is there a video of this talk?

I haven't found the specific talk, but HOPE 2014 has live feeds (July 18-20), and "archives" although it seems the archives are not up yet. http://radio.hope.net/feeds/ http://radio.hope.net/archive.html http://radio.hope.net/

Thanks!

Re: Identifying backdoors, attack points, and surveillance mechanisms in iOS devices

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Convert the report to pdf and upload it to https://pdf.yt/

looks like someone did http://pdf.yt/d/1dKWAxs03AvnYqkt

Thank you who ever did this. I have University access to this, but my University website is down at the moment.

Re: Identifying backdoors, attack points, and surveillance mechanisms in iOS devices

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Has anyone tried using the configurator? I'd give it a go but it looks like it might completely wipe devices prior to applying the settings.

yeah, if your device wasn't supervisioned before it would clean install - i guess but i haven't tried and/or checked otherwise if you can than reapply your backup.

I found a way: you can apply the restriction to a non-supervised device, which simplifies the process. You don't need to re-install or wipe.

Just create a profile with the restrictions, then follow the instructions at: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5833

(Edit to add: It's actually unclear if the non-pairing restriction gets applied when using this method, it doesn't seem to get listed in the profile details once on the device)

Re: Identifying backdoors, attack points, and surveillance mechanisms in iOS devices

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looks like someone did http://pdf.yt/d/1dKWAxs03AvnYqkt

Tangent: This is a good site for PDFs, immensely better than scribd. Whenever I click a link in the PDF (for eg. pg 17), the document zoomed in permanently. I cannot find a way to revert back to original zoom, even opening the link again does not help. So whoever is running the site, please look into this bug.

Click the down arrow in the top left corner then click the minus button to scroll out.

Re: Identifying backdoors, attack points, and surveillance mechanisms in iOS devices

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I was able to log in with my university credentials and get free access.

Even better. For a measly 10.000 in tuition I can access the article!

I wasn't suggesting that, obviously. I was trying to be helpful and point out that students have free access.

Re: Identifying backdoors, attack points, and surveillance mechanisms in iOS devices

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I know each publisher is different, but is there a guideline amount of how much each researcher gets when they are published in such journals?

None. (seriously, generally you pay for your articles to be published, academic publishing has a long way to come...)

Re: Identifying backdoors, attack points, and surveillance mechanisms in iOS devices

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Full text: https://pdf.yt/d/1dKWAxs03AvnYqkt

Mods, please change the article URL to this.

The URL should IMHO be http://www.zdziarski.com/blog/?p=3441 (primary source) or even directly http://www.zdziarski.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/iOS....

Re: Identifying backdoors, attack points, and surveillance mechanisms in iOS devices

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Even better. For a measly 10.000 in tuition I can access the article!

I wasn't suggesting that, obviously. I was trying to be helpful and point out that students have free access.

OT: Technically, it is not free access. You (or at public institutions, the general public) paid for your access … in discussions on open access, I often learn that many researchers, scientists etc. are under the impression that they already have open access although the simply get routed around paywalls because they use IP addresses of their paying institutions.
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