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They allow changing Wifi settings without even unlocking the phone. Be really careful about letting anyone touch your phone, esp. at conferences/airports. A

They allow changing Wifi settings without even unlocking the phone. Be really careful about letting anyone touch your phone, esp. at conferences/airports. A hacker could setup an easy MITM Wifi, to capture all of your traffic. But, now, without unlocking your phone (but still getting their physical hands on it), they can connect your phone to the Wifi SSID of their MITM attack network. Then, you're just surfing facebook, email, bank sites, & everything looks 100% legit. Meanwhile all of that traffic is going through their wifi & they can capture your sessions & impersonate you. Nasty stuff. All it'd take is one malicious network, and a band of attractive agents to shmooze unsuspecting people into showing them their phones to harvest tons of sessions & data.

tptacek 13y ago
Are you sure about this?
- johnvschmitt 13y ago
  From the article: "Control Center is a pull-up tray that is available in your lock screen. You can adjust brightness, volume, and other settings including Wifi, Airplane mode, rotation lock, or Bluetooth. "
  - tptacek 13y ago
    Are you sure that means you can easily switch a locked phone to an untrusted network?
  - masklinn 13y ago
    In the demos/screenshots it looked like fast switches where you could enable-disable things (wifi, bluetooth, airplane, flashlight), nothing more. edit: http://www.apple.com/ios/ios7/features/ http://www.apple.com/ios/ios7/features/ confirms it > Turn on or off Airplane mode, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and Do Not Disturb. Lock your screen’s orientation or adjust its brightness. Play, pause, or skip a song. Connect to AirPlay-enabled devices. And quickly access your flashlight, timer, calculator, and camera. (emphasis mine)
  - gte910h 13y ago
    It looked like you could turn it on and off.
masklinn 13y ago
Do they allow changing the settings or just enabling and disabling wifi?
r00fus 13y ago
So don't set your phone on promiscuous mode. I'll be willing to bet the controls only show whitelisted (i.e. previously visited) wifi points.
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dzlobin 13y ago
It only allows you to disable or enable wifi/bluetooth/airplane. This is pretty much 100% lifted from this old jailbroken iOS app: http://cydia.saurik.com/package/sbsettings http://cydia.saurik.com/package/sbsettings

tptacek 13y ago

Are you sure about this?

johnvschmitt 13y ago
From the article: "Control Center is a pull-up tray that is available in your lock screen. You can adjust brightness, volume, and other settings including Wifi, Airplane mode, rotation lock, or Bluetooth. "
- tptacek 13y ago
  Are you sure that means you can easily switch a locked phone to an untrusted network?
- masklinn 13y ago
  In the demos/screenshots it looked like fast switches where you could enable-disable things (wifi, bluetooth, airplane, flashlight), nothing more. edit: http://www.apple.com/ios/ios7/features/ http://www.apple.com/ios/ios7/features/ confirms it > Turn on or off Airplane mode, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and Do Not Disturb. Lock your screen’s orientation or adjust its brightness. Play, pause, or skip a song. Connect to AirPlay-enabled devices. And quickly access your flashlight, timer, calculator, and camera. (emphasis mine)
- gte910h 13y ago
  It looked like you could turn it on and off.

masklinn 13y ago

Do they allow changing the settings or just enabling and disabling wifi?

r00fus 13y ago

So don't set your phone on promiscuous mode. I'll be willing to bet the controls only show whitelisted (i.e. previously visited) wifi points.

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dzlobin 13y ago

It only allows you to disable or enable wifi/bluetooth/airplane. This is pretty much 100% lifted from this old jailbroken iOS app: http://cydia.saurik.com/package/sbsettings http://cydia.saurik.com/package/sbsettings