A Chinese tech company has been able to crack the encryption around Apple’s Airdrop wireless file sharing function to identify people who used the feature to send “inappropriate information” in the Beijing subway, according to the city’s Justice Bureau.
Sounds about right. Might be they have some man in the middle shenannigans going on with permanently installed hardware in the subway, but I doubt it. That would be a race condition that you might win with a lot more signal strength, but still…