{"id":11824,"date":"2015-07-24T11:26:02","date_gmt":"2015-07-24T15:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=11824"},"modified":"2017-09-26T11:09:14","modified_gmt":"2017-09-26T15:09:14","slug":"security-and-privacy-changes-in-ios-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/24\/security-and-privacy-changes-in-ios-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Security and Privacy Changes in iOS 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nabla-c0d3.github.io\/blog\/2015\/06\/16\/ios9-security-privacy\/\">Alban Diquet<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/nabla-c0d3.github.io\/blog\/2015\/06\/16\/ios9-security-privacy\/\">\n<p>To further prevent user tracking, Apple has extended MAC address randomization to additional services, and seems to now include location services scans.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Keychain items can now be encrypted using both the device&rsquo;s passcode and an &ldquo;Application password&rdquo;; both values are then needed to decrypt and retrieve the item. This allows Apps to control when the data is accessible\/decrypted, instead of having the data decrypted as soon as the device is unlocked.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>iOS 9 brings several new extension points geared toward network filtering and VPNs:<\/p>\n<ul>\n  <li>The Packet Tunnel Provider extension point, to implement the client-side of a custom VPN tunneling protocol.<\/li>\n  <li>The App Proxy Provider extension point, to implement the client-side of a custom transparent network proxy protocol.<\/li>\n  <li>The Filter Data Provider and the Filter Control Provider extension points, to implement dynamic, on-device network content filtering.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These extension points can only be used with a special entitlement, thereby requiring Apple to approve the extension first.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Maybe someday Little Snitch for iOS will be possible.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alban Diquet: To further prevent user tracking, Apple has extended MAC address randomization to additional services, and seems to now include location services scans. [&#8230;] Keychain items can now be encrypted using both the device&rsquo;s passcode and an &ldquo;Application password&rdquo;; both values are then needed to decrypt and retrieve the item. This allows Apps to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[905,31,1137,1583,139,355,48,1132],"class_list":["post-11824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-extensions","tag-ios","tag-ios-9","tag-keychain","tag-littlesnitch","tag-privacy","tag-security","tag-virtual-private-network-vpn"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11824"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11826,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11824\/revisions\/11826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}