Title is a bit incorrect though the body quickly clarifies. They claim they’ve cracked the log encryption on device, not the protocol itself. > The Beijing ins

Title is a bit incorrect though the body quickly clarifies. They claim they’ve cracked the log encryption on device, not the protocol itself. > The Beijing institute developed the technique to crack an iPhone’s encrypted device log to identify the numbers and emails of senders who share AirDrop content It would require unfettered access to a device/backup or probably a zero day to bootstrap it. Both are things I suspect they’d try, but it does change the substance of the claim significantly, as well as ease of updating encryption techniques for OS updates.