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Face to Face with Apple Face ID

Nov 3, 2017
2 min

Face to Face with Apple Face ID

Apple’s new iPhone X hit stores November 3rd. Its most talked about feature is Face ID. Instead of touching your finger to the phone to unlock it, just look at the camera and it recognizes your face. Face ID is more accurate than the old Touch ID. Does that mean it’s more secure? Taproot Security studied technical specs on Face ID and found potential vulnerabilities. I enumerated these in a private letter to Apple one month ago, along with ten recommendations to improve

Declassify CIA Vault 7

Mar 12, 2017
2 min

Declassify CIA Vault 7

As you probably know, a trove of documents about classified CIA hacking tools code-named “Vault 7” was recently published by WikiLeaks. It’s likely those tools are already falling into the hands of criminals, foreign governments, and others, although WikiLeaks hasn’t decided whether to publicly release them into the wild yet. There are things you can do to protect yourself – more about that in a moment. But first, a plea to the US government: Declassify the leaked CIA materi

Apple vs FBI: The Phantom Menace

Jun 2, 2016
3 min

Apple vs FBI: The Phantom Menace

Many think the Apple versus FBI saga ended when a third party offered to crack Syed Farook’s iPhone and the FBI withdrew its formal request to Apple for assistance. But industry insiders are still waiting for one last episode to reveal a Phantom Menace. The phantom menace in this case is an undisclosed iPhone vulnerability the mysterious third party used to crack Farook’s iPhone 5c. We don’t know what the vulnerability was or whether it’s still present in current iPhone mod

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