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Re:Apple’s AirDrop leaks users’ PII, and there’s not much th... by luxuryballs on Saturday April 24, 2021 @07:10PM (#26929002)
not much they can do? they could remove the feature, or why not just require some one-time iCloud handshake to happen to exchange anonymous identifiers once you confirm the contact? might gimp the feature somewhat but still, something can be done for a feature where air dropping to randos is just a cool party trick
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Re:Apple’s AirDrop leaks users’ PII, and there’s not much th... by Jyaif on Saturday April 24, 2021 @07:55PM (#26929229)
> not much they can do?

If you had read the article you would have seen that the researchers implemented the same feature without leaking any data using "Private Set Intersections".

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