#techlore DENIES Threat Exists

11 months ago
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Hate to break it to you Nate & Henry, but cross-device tracking has more credibility than Apple's non-existent user privacy.

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Sources:

TheHatedOne - "Your Phone Is Listening - Ultrasonic Cross-Device Tracking"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1FfVK6sj4I&pp=ygUXdGhlIGhhdGVkIG9uZSB1bHRyc29uaWM%3D

"How to Block the Ultrasonic Signals You Didn't Know Were Tracking You"
https://www.wired.com/2016/11/block-ultrasonic-signals-didnt-know-tracking/

"On the Privacy and Security of the Ultrasound Ecosystem"
https://petsymposium.org/2017/papers/issue2/paper18-2017-2-source.pdf

"Hundreds of Apps Using Ultrasonic Signals to Silently Track Smartphone Users"
https://thehackernews.com/2017/05/ultrasonic-tracking-signals-apps.html

"FTC Issues Warning Letters to App Developers Using ‘Silverpush’ Code"
https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2016/03/ftc-issues-warning-letters-app-developers-using-silverpush-code

"Beware of ads that use inaudible sound to link your phone, TV, tablet, and PC"
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/11/beware-of-ads-that-use-inaudible-sound-to-link-your-phone-tv-tablet-and-pc/

"How TV ads silently ping commands to phones: Sneaky SilverPush code reverse-engineered"
https://www.theregister.com/2015/11/20/silverpush_soundwave_ad_tracker/

"A Privacy Analysis of Cross-device Tracking"
https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/usenixsecurity17/sec17-zimmeck.pdf

"Privacy Threats through Ultrasonic Side Channels on Mobile Devices"
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=7961950

"Future Apple devices may use sound outside of human hearing to signal each other"
https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/09/08/future-apple-devices-may-use-sound-outside-of-human-hearing-to-signal-each-other"

"Speaker-to-speaker covert ultrasonic communication"
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2214212619304697

"DolphinAtack: Inaudible Voice Commands"
https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.09537

"Zero-permission acoustic cross-device tracking"
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8383887

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