Apple ignored warnings that AirDrop had a vulnerability that China learned to exploit

In 2019, researchers at Germany's Technical University of Darmstadt discovered that Apple's AirDrop wireless sharing function had vulnerabilities that allowed an attacker to hack the phone numbers and email addresses of the AirDrop users using a Wi-Fi-capable device and being in close proximity to a target. Then it becomes just...

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