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We're two #iOS developers and occasional #security researchers on two continents. #CyberSecurity 🇨🇦🇩🇪

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168 Following

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Joined February 14, 2023

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https://x.com/mysk_co

Blog:

https://mysk.blog

YouTube:

https://youtube.com/@mysk

Old Mastodon:

https://defcon.social/@mysk

Mysk🇨🇦🇩🇪 @mysk@mastodon.social

· 3w ago

RE: https://mastodon.social/@mysk/117264670021439841 Happy iOS 27 Day! Bookmark this post if you want to disable Apple Intelligence. Apple buries the option in "Screen Time". Apple joins other Big Tech companies in making it tougher to opt out of AI features that send data off-device.

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In iOS 27, there’s no longer simple toggle to disable Apple Intelligence entirely. Some features like Writing Tools can also send data off-device for processing through Private Cloud Compute After some digging, here’s how to disable Writing Tools: 1️⃣ Settings → Screen Time 2️⃣ Content & Privacy Restrictions → turn it on 3️⃣ Siri → Writing Assistance → Don’t Allow #Apple #Privacy

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Mysk🇨🇦🇩🇪 @mysk@mastodon.social

· 3w ago

In iOS 27, there’s no longer simple toggle to disable Apple Intelligence entirely. Some features like Writing Tools can also send data off-device for processing through Private Cloud Compute After some digging, here’s how to disable Writing Tools: 1️⃣ Settings → Screen Time 2️⃣ Content & Privacy Restrictions → turn it on 3️⃣ Siri → Writing Assistance → Don’t Allow #Apple #Privacy

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Mysk🇨🇦🇩🇪 @mysk@mastodon.social

· 2w ago

So on a Pixel 9 with Android 17, there’s no way to copy text from a photo offline and without sending it to Google? All these AI features on Pixel phones and basic OCR still can’t run locally?

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Mysk🇨🇦🇩🇪 @mysk@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

RE: https://mastodon.social/@mysk/116974847786124516 🚨 PSA: Uninstalling Google Chrome on macOS doesn't remove Chrome's background updater. It keeps running until you remove: ~/Library/Application Support/Google/GoogleUpdater ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.google.GoogleUpdater.wake.plist Then, restart.

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Mysk🇨🇦🇩🇪 @mysk@mastodon.social

· 1mo ago

📝 New Blog Post: Thoughts on Responsible Disclosure We recently disclosed issues in WebKit that affected Psylo and iCloud Private Relay. This has sparked some debate, so we want to explain our reasoning and share some thoughts on responsible disclosure https://mysk.blog/2026/08/25/responsible-disclosure/

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Mysk🇨🇦🇩🇪 @mysk@mastodon.social

· 3mo ago

🚨PSA: If you think you're a targeted individual, don't install macOS apps from the web. macOS code signing and TCC are broken. We accidentally found a bug that lets any command modify the binaries of other apps, including Signal, Brave, Chrome, and even Xcode. Watch the demo👇

#privacy #Apple #security #infosec #cybersecurity

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Mysk🇨🇦🇩🇪 @mysk@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

RE: https://mastodon.social/@mysk/116889369517349322 iOS 26.6 resets the clipboard counter after a reboot. This is the same change that Apple introduced in iOS 27 beta a while ago. Sadly no acknowledgment to Team Mysk or Project Loupe in the security release notes 😑

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Apparently Apple has fixed the clipboard counter in iOS 27 beta 3 thanks to Loupe. ✌️ Now the counter resets after a restart. Hey Apple, a little shoutout to the Loupe project would have been nice! Loupe is free and open source. You can download Loupe here: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/loupe-what-apps-can-see/id6766152470 #privacy #iOS #Apple #beta #infosec #security

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Mysk🇨🇦🇩🇪 @mysk@mastodon.social

· 3mo ago

Using Loupe, we found out that Proton VPN is the only VPN that prevents internal tunnel IP fingerprinting by assigning 10.2.0.2 to all users. Other VPNs, such as Mullvad, assign a static and unique IP per session. This allows iOS apps to track user sessions across apps. Mullvad is aware of this issue. It is described in this blog: https://mullvad.net/en/help/why-wireguard You can download Loupe here: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6766152470 #iOS #privacy #infosec #security #cybersecurity

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· 3mo ago

Apparently Apple has fixed the clipboard counter in iOS 27 beta 3 thanks to Loupe. ✌️ Now the counter resets after a restart. Hey Apple, a little shoutout to the Loupe project would have been nice! Loupe is free and open source. You can download Loupe here: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/loupe-what-apps-can-see/id6766152470 #privacy #iOS #Apple #beta #infosec #security

Loupe: What Apps Can See App - App Store

Loupe: What Apps Can See App - App Store

Download Loupe: What Apps Can See by Mysk Inc. on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more apps like Loupe: What Apps Can See.

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Mysk🇨🇦🇩🇪 @mysk@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

Good news to hackers: this hasn't been fixed in 26.6. Actually, it won't be fixed. Enjoy what you collect from people's clipboards. BTW you can also do the same with Microsoft Edge. Cheers! https://youtu.be/lLJkxWR71B0

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Mysk🇨🇦🇩🇪 @mysk@mastodon.social

· 3w ago

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@wdormann@infosec.exchange No idea. It's puzzling that one has to change such important settings in "Screen Time". For me, the most important thing is to disable the writing tools of Apple Intelligence because it doesn't process text on-device.

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Mysk🇨🇦🇩🇪 @mysk@mastodon.social

· 3mo ago

Loupe has earned 1,000 5-star ratings on the App Store and its GitHub repo has reached 1,2k stars. ✌️

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Mysk🇨🇦🇩🇪 @mysk@mastodon.social

· 3mo ago

Cool, so in the future we should expect an email like this: https://blog.playstation.com/2026/07/01/physical-disc-production-ending-in-january-2028-for-new-games-releasing-on-playstation-consoles/

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Mysk🇨🇦🇩🇪 @mysk@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

RE: https://mastodon.social/@mysk/116969508089535193 appleinsider inaccurately assumed that for the attack to succeed the user has to perform certain steps like archiving an restoring. This is wrong. All the user needs to do is run the malicious script. Now all websites are citing appleinsider 🤬 https://appleinsider.com/articles/26/07/24/trusted-mac-apps-could-possibly-be-swapped-out-for-malware

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Mysk🇨🇦🇩🇪 @mysk@mastodon.social

· 3mo ago

Just out of curiosity, I let Claude attempt to port Loupe to Android using skiptools. If you haven’t heard of Skip, it’s a tool that lets you produce native Android apps from a SwiftUI codebase. Loupe is written entirely in Swift and SwiftUI, so it should be a good match

It’s still so surprising to me that this works at all. That said, I don’t think Loupe for Android is coming anytime soon since we have other stuff going on right now

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Mysk🇨🇦🇩🇪 @mysk@mastodon.social

· 3mo ago

Techlore reviewed Loupe in this great video:

https://youtu.be/_n_SpEWtqog

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Mysk🇨🇦🇩🇪 @mysk@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

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Of course, now we publish, it goes viral, then Apple fixes it quietly in the next update. It happened before. At least it is not a duplicate 💪 Any tech journalists interested in covering this bug, please reach out. We're gonna do an embargo before we publish the blog

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Mysk🇨🇦🇩🇪 @mysk@mastodon.social

· 4mo ago

Bill C-22 would impact @psylo@infosec.exchange since Mysk is registered in Canada and we have proxy servers in Canada too.

We will not change Psylo’s no-log policy. If bill C-22 passes as is, we would likely have to move out of Canada.

https://mobilesyrup.com/2026/05/14/signal-threatens-canada-exit-over-law-bill-c-22/

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Mysk🇨🇦🇩🇪 @mysk@mastodon.social

· 3mo ago

Replying to on corteximplant.com

@0@corteximplant.com Oh, I stopped dragging and dropping things in the Terminal since we published this: https://mysk.blog/2026/05/19/cve-2026-28910/

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Mysk🇨🇦🇩🇪 @mysk@mastodon.social

· 4mo ago

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This exchange from X adds some context: https://infosec.exchange/@psylo/116633092694513326

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Mysk🇨🇦🇩🇪 @mysk@mastodon.social

· 4mo ago

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@erlenmayr@chaos.social There are rules for app acquisitions that eventually enable one developer, in this case Meta, to own all apps owned through acquisitions even if they have different bundle IDs

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Mysk🇨🇦🇩🇪 @mysk@mastodon.social

· 3mo ago

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The data Michael received should also include way more detailed events than just search queries. Every click, every app screenshot you open and for how long you view it, every app video you play and which parts of the video you view, when you pause the video, and resume playing it, all these events are recorded. But Michael's post was about search queries and key-logging: https://mjtsai.com/blog/2026/06/12/app-store-personalized-recommendations-and-keylogging/

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Mysk🇨🇦🇩🇪 @mysk@mastodon.social

· 4mo ago

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Polishing the rough edges. We're good to publish today ✌️

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Mysk🇨🇦🇩🇪 @mysk@mastodon.social

· 4mo ago

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This is when we discovered the bug: https://mastodon.social/@mysk/115283952511882565

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Mysk🇨🇦🇩🇪 @mysk@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

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@neurovagrant@masto.deoan.org @xorhex@infosec.exchange @freediverx@mastodon.social @psylo@infosec.exchange 🤣 Psylo by default uses the toughest anti-fingerprinting options. Some websites don't like it. You can always relax the options per silo in the settings. Can you share the website?

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Mysk🇨🇦🇩🇪 @mysk@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

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@ajn142@infosec.exchange We're busy working on a Psylo update. It could either be late next week or Monday the following week.

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Mysk🇨🇦🇩🇪 @mysk@mastodon.social

· 4mo ago

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@__ic@mastodon.social Hey, alternative sources to what? I took the screenshot today, but I haven't used WhatsApp on my Mac since 2024. During our testing as shown in the demo we use VMs. I just wanted to show the containers quickly and didn't have a VM ready 🫣. I didn't know the post would be shared that much. The bug is not related to WhatsApp. Apps published by the same developer can access their shared containers by design.

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Mysk🇨🇦🇩🇪 @mysk@mastodon.social

· 4mo ago

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macOS Archive Utility Bug Could Let Attackers Hijack Signal Sessions—Fixed in 26.4 (CVE-2026-28910) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WuH0pIE7j2Y

macOS Archive Utility Bug Could Let Attackers Hijack Signal Sessions—Fixed in 26.4 (CVE-2026-28910)

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Mysk🇨🇦🇩🇪 @mysk@mastodon.social

· 4mo ago

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macOS Security: Archive Utility bug can expose Safari, Messages, and WhatsApp data - CVE-2026-28910 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Naq5IojVoNs

macOS Security: Archive Utility bug can expose Safari, Messages, and WhatsApp data - CVE-2026-28910

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Mysk🇨🇦🇩🇪 @mysk@mastodon.social

· 4mo ago

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macOS Security: Archive Utility Bug Could Expose 1Password Secrets — Fixed in 26.4 (CVE-2026-28910) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Hp5NLDtxmzo

macOS Security: Archive Utility Bug Could Expose 1Password Secrets — Fixed in 26.4 (CVE-2026-28910)

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Mysk🇨🇦🇩🇪 @mysk@mastodon.social

· 4mo ago

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The bug severity level has been updated to low. No idea what caused this. We're working hard to publish demoes illustrating the impact of the bug on "protected" macOS apps. Our team is handling 5 projects at the moment. We hope we will be able to publish by Friday.

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Mysk🇨🇦🇩🇪 @mysk@mastodon.social

· 3mo ago

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@bub4don@mastodon.social @mjtsai@mastodon.social Thank you. Homebrew is open source. One can easily block its analytics endpoint. But you can switch analytics off in the settings. The problem with the App Store is that you cannot use a different store to download apps on your iPhone. Please let us know about what shocks you the most when you get your data.

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Mysk🇨🇦🇩🇪 @mysk@mastodon.social

· 4mo ago

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@jamesbooker@floss.social Yep

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Mysk🇨🇦🇩🇪 @mysk@mastodon.social

· 4mo ago

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@softmaus@mastodon.social Oh wow. Light mode is broken. We're fixing it. Thanks

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Mysk🇨🇦🇩🇪 @mysk@mastodon.social

· 4mo ago

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macOS Bug Lets Attackers Hijack Background Apps to Spy on Clipboard — Fixed in 26.4 (CVE-2026-28910) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NUm5068G5eM

macOS Bug Lets Attackers Hijack Background Apps to Spy on Clipboard — Fixed in 26.4 (CVE-2026-28910)

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Mysk🇨🇦🇩🇪 @mysk@mastodon.social

· 4mo ago

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@winterknight1337@infosec.exchange It seems to be rubbish. The vector doesn't reflect the attack at all. For example, the attack needs user interaction, but the vector doesn't include it. Anyhow, we will publish the blog and videos soon (targeting Friday). https://www.tenable.com/cve/CVE-2026-28910

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Mysk🇨🇦🇩🇪 @mysk@mastodon.social

· 4mo ago

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@softmaus@mastodon.social Thanks a lot for reporting it.

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Mysk🇨🇦🇩🇪 @mysk@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

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@xorhex@infosec.exchange @neurovagrant@masto.deoan.org @freediverx@mastodon.social @psylo@infosec.exchange It seems to work. I used the default settings in a German silo:

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Mysk🇨🇦🇩🇪 @mysk@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

Another change seems to be motivated by Loupe. Apple has deprecated the canOpenURL API that apps use to detect which apps are installed on the iPhone in iOS 27 Beta 4. Moreover, the deprecated API will only allow a maximum of 25 apps to be queried instead of 50 #privacy #infosec #Apple #ioS

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Mysk🇨🇦🇩🇪 @mysk@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

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@neurovagrant@masto.deoan.org @freediverx@mastodon.social @psylo@infosec.exchange Thanks a lot Ian 🙏We would like to open-source Psylo or have it audited, or both. However, that would only provide distraction at the moment and prevent us from delivering nice privacy features. This is why we started with Loupe as an open-source project. We're evaluating how that goes. We're committed to privacy. Psylo is actually the only browser that collects zero in-app analytics. No opt-in, no opt-out. And it will stay like this.

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Mysk🇨🇦🇩🇪 @mysk@mastodon.social

· 4mo ago

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@softmaus@mastodon.social Fixed!

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Mysk🇨🇦🇩🇪 @mysk@mastodon.social

· 4mo ago

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@softmaus@mastodon.social Where? Can you show a screenshot?

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Mysk🇨🇦🇩🇪 @mysk@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

Many of you have asked for a way to support the Loupe project. We want to keep Loupe free of in-app purchases, so instead we’ve created a Buy Me a Coffee page for anyone who’d like to show their appreciation. ☕ https://buymeacoffee.com/mysk

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Mysk🇨🇦🇩🇪 @mysk@mastodon.social

· 3w ago

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@ajn142@infosec.exchange @wdormann@infosec.exchange It is under Settings -> Notifications

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