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Hacking Apple AWDL (Apple Wireless Direct Link) which is used for AirDrop, AirPlay etc. AWDL combines usage of Wifi and Bluetooth LE to create "ad-hoc" kind of WiFi network to communicate with other Apple devices. It is enabled by default and really hard to disable.

Links

• Open Wireless Link https://owlink.org/wiki/
• One Billion Apples’ Secret Sauce: Recipe for the Apple Wireless Direct Link Ad hoc Protocol https://arxiv.org/pdf/1808.03156.pdf
• A Billion Open Interfaces for Eve and Mallory: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/sec19fall_stute_prepub.pdf
• an Open Source AirDrop Implementation https://github.com/seemoo-lab/opendrop
• Apple bleee https://github.com/hexway/apple_bleee
• Meshing using Apple Wireless Direct Link (AWDL) https://yggdrasil-network.github.io/2019/08/19/awdl.html
• Excellent writeup about "An iOS zero-click radio proximity exploit odyssey " https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2020/12/an-ios-zero-click-radio-proximity.html