‘100% of Hide My Email addresses were exploitable’: Apple’s security feature can be duped into supplying the real contact info — and the bug has remained unpatched for over a year
THE SO WHAT
A year-long unpatched flaw in a flagship privacy feature is a reminder that “private by design” claims don’t remove the need for adversarial testing. If your product leans on third-party privacy shields, treat them as untrusted until you’ve modeled failure modes and built your own rate limits, alerts, and fallbacks.
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