It is hard to understate how much more hardened Apple's Application-Processor-side of WiFi is than any other operating system out there. Between MIE and the XZM allocator there's some serious hardening on the latest iOS and iPhone 17. We spend a lot of time in wifi land and Apple's the gold standard here.

The first big thing to know about Apple's WiFi on iOS is that they removed attack surface from the kernel and brought it into userland with DriverKit (https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2019/702/). The concept was initially formed by Simon Douglas while he was at NeXT, Inc working for Steve Jobs and brought to Mac in 2019 by Douglas and team. Most memory corruption can't get far by design and it should be exceedingly difficult to see another Ian Beer type wifi exploit (https://projectzero.google/2020/12/an-ios-zero-click-radio-proximity.html)

This use after free bug occured in `wifid`, a root userland process on iOS and can be triggered without any user interaction.

Dear Seattle, this late october/early November I will be organizing an event all about HQC (https://pqc-hqc.org/), Nist's candidate for standardization in 2027 for Post Quantum cryptography.

We'll likely have one of the coauthors of HQC presenting. If you have an expert you would like to recommend or are interested in helping organize as well please reach out. Seeking talks on coding theory, information set decoding, or other topical areas concerning the cryptanalysis of HQC.

More useful links:
https://pqc-hqc.org/
https://lnkd.in/gm3XUiis

wifi 6 routers powered by compute module 5s now for sale at https://www.supernetworks.org/compute-board.html

- poe+ & usb-pd

- designed for running SPR from supernetworks

Last week, I lost a dear friend and ctf teammate, Quend. Every spring we all gather to compile together the best challenges we can for the Midnight Sun CTF qualifiers. The current HFS crew were all back together again this month getting things ready to launch

Years earlier, before we even met, I had started @rpisec with @rgov to find like minds to kick some butt at ctf. I was always very proud that we could inspire hackers like quend to join years later and seriously kick ass

Quend was an inspiration to me as well, between her resolve, her depth of knowledge, her funny jokes and memes, and always a joy to ctf with. It was good to brainstorm through challenge concepts too. She took the midnight sun ctf and helped organize it into a wonderful conference in stockholm and it's hard to understate how awesome she was

Between RPI, NYC, HFS, defcon, and all the little ctfs we played over the years, it was a great time and it's beyond an awful time right now to have lost one of the great ones