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The biggest controversy of the year with Apple, and perhaps the one we have talked about the least... You can (or could) access an iPhone without even touching it!

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Launched among innumerable controversies, the truth is that Apple has once again reaped an indisputable success with the iPhone 12, which aimed to succeed among Android users but finally ended up teaching us that small high-end mobiles do not make sense and that soon we will no longer see chargers in the boxes of our devices.

In any case, perhaps very little has been said about the biggest controversy of this year 2020 with Apple, and that is that a Google Project Zero engineer has discovered and published about a surprising, almost incredible vulnerability, which allows access to an iPhone remotely and without even touching the apple terminal.

It is an exploit that was explained to us in The Verge and that the researcher himself analyzed in detail on his Google Project Zero blog, showing on video how it is possible to access a lot of iPhones remotely, without even touching them and in a way that seems like pure magic.

A Google engineer revealing an 'exploit' of this caliber in iOS? Well that seems...

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A movie vulnerability in the Apple Wireless Direct Link protocol

Surely many of you have seen movies about some hacker capable of accessing remote devices instantly, without the need to touch or connect anything, obviously, showing incredible skills in a dystopian reality that, eye, does not seem so unattainable if we read Ian Beer's blog .

And yes, friends, this Google Project Zero security researcher has discovered an 'exploit' in iOS that, at least until last May, allowed a wide variety of iPhones or iPads to be restarted, taking complete control of the devices without touch them at all, from a distance and with the possibility of even reading emails and other messages, downloading their photos and data or listening to the user and seeing him through the terminal's own microphones and camera.

Sounds impossible, right? Well, it is not as impossible as you will see in the videos that illustrate the article and the vulnerability:

If you want to know how such a thing works and how it is possible for a malicious hacker to access your Apple device without touching it, you should know that it is due to a security flaw in the Apple Wireless Direct Link (AWDL) protocol, which is used in iOS devices to create mesh networks that enable features such as AirDrop, fast and easy transfer of photos and files between terminals, or Sidecar, which is used to turn an iPad into a secondary computer display.

According to Ian Beer himself, it is possible to exploit this vulnerability by "forcing" AWDL to turn on even if it had previously been turned off, although he actually admits that it took him more than six months to detect, verify and demonstrate the exploit, confirming in passing that it is possible that no one has used such a trick to hack any iPhone in a practical way.

In any case, what can be done or has been done should not be taken lightly because the bug existed and is extremely dangerous, in fact Apple did not discuss the problem at any time, but limited itself to correcting it last May stating that most of its users were already using patched versions of iOS and it was necessary to be within WiFi range to exploit the bug.

The moral is that effectively nobody is going to spend six months going over the networks and packets that your smartphone transmits to take some photos of you, so you are safe, but you should certainly be careful with your mobile devices because a user working only in a room at On the other hand, he was able to gain access to an iPhone without even touching it... It almost sounds creepy!

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