July 18, 2013
Can You Trust What Your Eyes See?
July 15, 2013
Non-Standard Way to Get Inaccessible Data from iOS
In the wake of my speech at Positive Hack Days, I would like to share information I got exploring a daemon configd on iOS 6 MACH. As you know, iOS gives little information about Wi-Fi connection status. Basically, Public API allows getting SSID, BSSID, adapter network settings and that's all. And what about encryption mode? Signal power? You can look under the cut for more information on how to get such data without Private API and jailbreaking.
Now I must apologize for posting so many source codes. To begin with, let us recall how it was earlier, in iOS 5.*. Then you could use Apple System Log facility to get the system messages that are displayed when connecting to a network. The encryption mode and signal power data appeared in the messages. And you could get them this way:
Now I must apologize for posting so many source codes. To begin with, let us recall how it was earlier, in iOS 5.*. Then you could use Apple System Log facility to get the system messages that are displayed when connecting to a network. The encryption mode and signal power data appeared in the messages. And you could get them this way:
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