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So my latest blogpost is chock full of details you didn't realize you cared about, such as where Apple puts files when it backs up your iPhone. It stores them in files named with the SHA1 hash of the original filename.
There are easy-to-use GUIs for extracting files from iPhone backups, like "iPhone Backup Extractor", but you can extract the "ChatStorage.sqlite" file from the backup yourself by grabbing the file named "7c7fba66680ef796b916b067077cc246adacf01d".
I mention their product because that's what I started with, but also because it's got a lot of good additional technical information on their website:
iphonebackupextractor.com/blog/iphone-ba…
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Rob ☃️ Graham (not at Shmoocon this year)
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Among the 20-year old arguments we still haven't resolved in infosec is this one. Part of the inconclusiveness is that both sides of the argument are right, depending on unspoken premises. We all assume your premises are the same as mine.
Some organizations haven't yet gotten the basics down. They need pentests doing the basics. Other organizations have solved what hackers did yesterday and want pentesters doing things that hackers will do tomorrow.
The underlying thread brings up a slightly different topic. Defenders are treated worse than dogs. I'm referring to sniffer dogs in airports that search bags for drugs and bombs. The dogs become bored and disillusioned unless they are occasionally given successes.
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Rob ☃️ Graham (not at Shmoocon this year)
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The fictional narrative of a "winner" has become even more fictional than normal.
I mention this because of the nonsense of elections cybersecurity, where it's possibly not even among the top 10 issues that impact elections. Yes, it's important to get right, but it's like writing down measurements to 4 decimals places using a hand-held ruler accurate to only 1
To start with, "primaries" aren't even "elections". They are part, only a part, of the system each party uses to choose candidates for the actual election.
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Rob ☃️ Graham (not at Shmoocon this year)
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Expiring on a specific date is dumb. What's the best alternative? Logging to a file somewhere? Warning messages to user? I like this idea: increasing delays.
So just use 20 year expiration? I'm not sure this is a good idea because (a) why have them expire at all then? and (b) that just means in 20 years the failure will be really catastrophic as there's nobody around who remembers what the thing does
So, why is expiring HTTPS worse than HTTP? The answer is that an HTTP site doesn't want encryption, but an HTTPS site does. Thus, if HTTPS fails for whatever reason, backing off to HTTP would be bad.
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iPhone models before iPhoneX are believed to be non-infrared emitting, right?
That detail has been stated as part of the reason FaceID is not compatible with models before the X.
I have in front of me an iPhone 7 which is emitting IR from the front-facing lense speck. I thought this was not a capability of that model.

The phone itself + mirror shows it in playback, due to the front-facing camera lacking an infrared filter (the back camera filters out IR)
#iPhone enthusiasts, is this common knowledge? (that models prior to X can and do emit infrared from front-facing selfie camera lense area). I thought the capability was introduced with the X.
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1/ "Russia! Russia! Russia!"

Seems to be dead or dying out in flames, on to looking at the POTUS taxes for the last 40 years. But the Russia stench still lingers.
2/ So what exactly did Obama do about it for 8 long years? The all hallowed Intel report clearly says Russia and other countries have been up to the same tricks for over 10 years.
3/ In fact it says Russia "interfered" in the 2012 election at least as much as in 2016, and it wasn't in favor of Romney.

I tell you what he did "stand down?"

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iPhone: 41.3M units
iPad: 11.6M units
Mac: 3.7M units
Apple 4Q18 revenue guidance: $60B to $62B

Decent range vs. expectations
Apple's "Other Products" revenue: $3.74B.
My expectation: $3.77B.

Results imply strong Apple Watch and AirPods sales.
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