Is this a hoax? I note that the article text has several of the hallmarks of LLM-generated text; em-dashes, not-just-this-but-that, short bullet point lists, random text bolding...
Both of these submissions are [flagged]. I suspect that OP takes iPhone device logs and feeds the to an LLM to come up with security issues.
mintplant · 9h ago
Ah, welp! Egg on my face; I'll be less charitable with this sort of thing in the future.
Thanks for doing the digging. Unfortunately HN doesn't let you retract submissions, otherwise I would.
mintplant · 10h ago
I noticed that, too, but I thought perhaps the write-up was simply "LLM-assisted".
I came across this while debugging the "Malformed anchor records, not an array" log message on iOS 18.6.2 and seeing weird behavior: some parts of the system suddenly rejecting certificates with an anchor error (the MDM layer) while other parts accepted them just fine (Safari). So that's n=2 for something being wrong with the trust system in recent iOS versions.
lambdaone · 6m ago
If this was real, it would be a big, big deal, but I can't so far see anyone else in the security space picking this up as a story. Note also the GitHub history of the source.
Edit:
"Apple A17 Pro Chip Hardware Flaw?" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45160947
"iOS 18.5 Bluetooth Privacy Vulnerabilities" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44933435
Both of these submissions are [flagged]. I suspect that OP takes iPhone device logs and feeds the to an LLM to come up with security issues.
Thanks for doing the digging. Unfortunately HN doesn't let you retract submissions, otherwise I would.
I came across this while debugging the "Malformed anchor records, not an array" log message on iOS 18.6.2 and seeing weird behavior: some parts of the system suddenly rejecting certificates with an anchor error (the MDM layer) while other parts accepted them just fine (Safari). So that's n=2 for something being wrong with the trust system in recent iOS versions.