Apple Photos phones home on iOS 18 and macOS 15

Re:Apple Photos phones home on iOS 18 and macOS 15 by amelius on Saturday December 28, 2024 @06:07PM (#42535666)

> It's the equivalent of sending an MD5 of your password somewhere; you may still object, but it is not factually correct to say your password was transmitted.

Hackers love to have MD5 checksums of passwords. They make it way easier to find the passwords in a brute force attack.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_table

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Re:Apple Photos phones home on iOS 18 and macOS 15 by throw0101d on Saturday December 28, 2024 @06:16PM (#42535723)

>> It's the equivalent of […]

> Hackers love to have MD5 checksums of passwords.

Hackers love not understanding analogies. :)

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Re:Apple Photos phones home on iOS 18 and macOS 15 by robocat on Saturday December 28, 2024 @06:26PM (#42535793)

Hackers love to make defective analogies (especially redundant recursive ones) and invite sarcastic corrections to them.

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Re:Apple Photos phones home on iOS 18 and macOS 15 by icehawk on Saturday December 28, 2024 @07:33PM (#42536251)

Nobody responding seriously to this because you seem to have missed the part where GP said "with noise added to make it irreversible" and the third sentence in that wikipedia article.

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Re:Apple Photos phones home on iOS 18 and macOS 15 by brookst on Sunday December 29, 2024 @12:04AM (#42537666)

Hackers don’t know about salts yet?

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Re:Apple Photos phones home on iOS 18 and macOS 15 by defrost on Sunday December 29, 2024 @12:09AM (#42537691)

Bath salts yes, security salts, not so much.

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