"In a surprise move, Google on Thursday announced that it has updated Quick Share, its peer-to-peer file transfer service, to work with Apple's equipment AirDrop, allowing users to more easily share files and photos between Android and iPhone devices. The cross-platform sharing feature is currently limited to the Pixel 10 lineup and works with iPhone, iPad, and macOS devices, with plans to expand to additional Android devices in the future."
""We built Quick Share's interoperability support for AirDrop with the same rigorous security standards that we apply to all Google products," Dave Kleidermacher, vice president of Platforms Security and Privacy at Google, said. At the heart of the future is a multi-layered security approach that's powered by the memory-safe Rust programming language to create a secure sharing channel that Google said eliminates entire classes of memory safety vulnerabilities, making its implementation resilient against attacks that attempt to exploit memory errors."
Quick Share now interoperates with AirDrop, enabling Pixel 10 users to share files and photos with iPhone, iPad, and macOS devices. The feature is limited to the Pixel 10 lineup with plans to expand to more Android devices. Apple devices must be set to be discoverable to anyone for 10 minutes to receive files; Android users must set Quick Share visibility to Everyone for 10 minutes or enter Receive mode. The implementation uses a multi-layered security approach built in the memory-safe Rust language to eliminate classes of memory safety vulnerabilities and establish a secure sharing channel. The data is not routed through a server and independent assessment found no introduced vulnerabilities.
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