{"id":5436,"date":"2025-07-18T05:05:19","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T05:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/18\/security-vulnerabilities-in-iceblock-html\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T05:05:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T05:05:19","slug":"security-vulnerabilities-in-iceblock-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/18\/security-vulnerabilities-in-iceblock-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Security Vulnerabilities in ICEBlock"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>Security Vulnerabilities in ICEBlock<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The ICEBlock tool has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/cyber-security\/707116\/iceblock-data-privacy-security-android-version\">vulnerabilities<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The developer of ICEBlock, an iOS app for anonymously reporting sightings of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials, promises that it \u201censures user privacy by storing no personal data.\u201d But that claim has come under scrutiny. ICEBlock creator Joshua Aaron has been accused of making false promises regarding user anonymity and privacy, being \u201cmisguided\u201d about the privacy offered by iOS, and of being an Apple fanboy. The issue isn\u2019t what ICEBlock stores. It\u2019s about what it could accidentally reveal through its tight integration with iOS.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Bruce Schneier<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.schneier.com\/blog\/archives\/2025\/07\/security-vulnerabilities-in-iceblock.html\">Go to bruce schneier<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Security Vulnerabilities in ICEBlock The ICEBlock tool has vulnerabilities: The developer of ICEBlock, an iOS app for anonymously reporting sightings of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials, promises that it \u201censures user privacy by storing no personal data.\u201d But that claim has come under scrutiny. ICEBlock creator Joshua Aaron has been accused of making [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1587,57,277,83,1,416],"tags":[87],"class_list":["post-5436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anonymity","category-bruce-schneier","category-ios","category-privacy","category-uncategorized","category-vulnerabilities","tag-bruce-schneier"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5436"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}