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agos on April 28, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: How a single line of code could brick your iPhone

this is exactly where my mind went immediately - 64 bits is more than enough for easy (1 line!) unenforced cross-app tracking of a user for advertising purposes, basically a super cookie for iOS. If they now require an entitlement for this API it's a privacy win

croemer on April 28, 2025 [–]

Only sensitive notifications require an entitlement. Tracking wasn't mitigated.

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