CHINESE FORENSIC FIRM CRACKS APPLE’S AIRDROP TO HELP BEIJING POLICE TRACK SENDERS

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The Chinese Bureau of Justice has announced that it worked with a forensics firm to crack Apple’s anonymous AirDrops to track the use and spread of “inappropriate speech.” The firm reported that it was able to analyze iPhone logs for hashed values of senders' mobile numbers and emails, which it then cracked with a rainbow table.