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The Apple driver creates some sort of cryptographic keypair between the device and the computer to "remember" that you accepted the connection and not prompt yo
by xnyanta 8y ago
The Apple driver creates some sort of cryptographic keypair between the device and the computer to "remember" that you accepted the connection and not prompt you to connect in the future.
If this file was recovered from a victim's computer, forensic software can sue it to bypass the prompt. According to the article, however there is now also a 7-day expiration on these cryptographic keypairs.
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- colejohnson66 8y ago> If this file was recovered from a victim's computer, forensic software can sue it to bypass the prompt. That typo gave me a good laugh
- floatingatoll 8y agoNot quite - after 7 days, the phone has to be PIN unlocked to reenable the existing keypairs.
- bscphil 8y agoAh. This would make more sense and clear up some of my confusion. So far as I know, Android doesn't have this dubious feature. You have to manually give permission every time. So this change is essentially setting a time limit for anyone to recover your keys.