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“Facebook Research” was the Onavo codebase, under a different name, signed by Facebook’s Enterprise certificate.
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 about pre-T1 Intel Macs though. Apple will have a blind spot by design, until support is dropped for old machines.

Re:Apple Passkey on Monday June 06, 2022 @11:41PM (#31649637)
> 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, weather, and similar apps with a reasonable rationale for Location Services access are often the culprits.

They will put phrases like “See privacy policy.” in the justification text (When asking permission) so they can claim that the user consented.

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.

Re:How our free plan stays free on Wednesday March 16, 2022 @06:01PM (#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. friends sharing access to a file/media server), within 5 minutes or less from download/login to “done”
Re:Who's Attacking My Server? on Wednesday March 16, 2022 @12:31AM (#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?) would likely require a very noisy and detectable process.
This may make sense if they were replying via e-mail to the issue.
Re:Our User-Mode WireGuard Year on Friday February 11, 2022 @02:31PM (#30305982)
Different poster here but just curious: Are you a Deutsche Telekom user, by chance?
Re:Facebook-owned sites were down on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @12:17PM (#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).
Re:Apple’s crackdown on multicast on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @01:03AM (#28298219)
In current versions? What permission is this?
Re:The short tale of an online scam on Thursday July 01, 2021 @01:35PM (#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.
That is incorrect, Corellium does not ship Apple code.
Re:Don’t format a drive of M1 Macs from recovery mode on Thursday February 18, 2021 @08:39PM (#26188432)
If it had a T2, that will store the Apple ID.
Re:Apple’s Anti-Tracking Plans for iPhone on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @12:18PM (#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 job at preventing fraud. There is no way to validate anything about it or affirm that it ties to a genuine device.

Re:Why radio receivers won’t tune 800-900 MHz on Sunday December 13, 2020 @01:20AM (#25404714)
Pager messages collected on September 11, 2001. They are also a type of communication which is transmitted without encryption.
Re:Many of the root certificates on Windows are not needed on Monday October 19, 2020 @12:51PM (#24828179)
The list can be found here: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210770
Re:Samsung Ads – Demand-Side Platform on Sunday October 04, 2020 @02:34PM (#24681192)
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 they have done for years to access other sensitive data like Contacts, Location, etc.

Re:Why it’s hard to kill the Bloomberg terminal (2019) on Tuesday July 21, 2020 @05:04PM (#23910984)
This exists, though not exactly as you describe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASmallWorld
Re:Stealing your SMS messages with iOS 0day on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @02:52PM (#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 utilized private entitlements, from what I’ve seen anyway, has been Uber.

Re:Stealing your SMS messages with iOS 0day on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @12:36PM (#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.
Re:Project Sandcastle: Android for the iPhone on Thursday March 05, 2020 @03:58PM (#22498159)
Not replace, rather, you boot Linux over USB. That is why they describe the ephemeral device use case.
Re:Project Sandcastle: Android for the iPhone on Thursday March 05, 2020 @12:27PM (#22495746)
Source code: https://github.com/corellium/projectsandcastle/

The backstory is also incredibly interesting: https://projectsandcastle.org/history

Specifically, I was asked about how Clearview can make their iOS app available again.
Important to note, our app is a VPN as well. This way, with the bulk of our business logic on the server-side, device battery is saved and we can do real-time block list updates rather than the app needing to pull down a new rule set.

The $1/day / $10/month / $100/year has been fairly well received, but may not be for everyone, especially those who enjoy running their own VPN server and/or curating their own block lists.

That's not the real licensing cost at all. The cloud and on-premise options are both available for substantially less.

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