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• Why your early 2000s photos are probably lost forever

  From a UX perspective Airdrop is super nice. I don't know if there are working implementations for other OSs. Just found this here but didn't yet test it https://github.com/seemoo-lab/opendrop (hasn't been updated in 2 years, so maybe not too promising). - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

• Android and iPhone users can now share files, starting with the Pixel 10 family

  No, not at all. Someone even implemented AirDrop in Python before[1]. In fact, nothing ever needs such special hardware. It's a decision of the implementer if they'd like to get fancy and rely on such hardware in their implementation to change its security profile, but the iPhone at the other end or any Apple infrastructure would be none the wiser - they just see that they're getting appropriately signed or... - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

• Android and iPhone users can now share files, starting with the Pixel 10 family

  Eh... There is an open source AirDrop implementation, it's 6 years old now. https://github.com/seemoo-lab/opendrop. - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

• Android and iPhone users can now share files, starting with the Pixel 10 family

  From the linked security report in that post https://www.netspi.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/google-feature-review-report.pdf it seems like they implemented something similar to https://github.com/seemoo-lab/opendrop (which was also used to test interoperablity Also `we welcome the opportunity to work with Apple to enable “Contacts Only” mode in the future` doesn't make it sound like Apple actually helped... - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

• Cross-Platform P2P Wi-Fi: How the EU Killed AWDL

  For something like AirDrop this will need to be sorted out, but already work occurred to reverse engineer this: https://github.com/seemoo-lab/opendrop Would be cool if an open standard on auth forms on top of this. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• Peer-to-peer file transfers in the browser

  Somebody indeed has, but since it uses a custom low-level 802.11 variant, I don't think it's feasible on (at least non-rooted) Android devices: https://github.com/seemoo-lab/opendrop. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• This Week In Python

  Opendrop – An open Apple AirDrop implementation written in Python. - Source: dev.to / over 1 year ago

• Samsung WB850F Firmware Reverse-Engineering

  The (for me) most interesting thing is: why the fuck has no one managed to reverse engineer AirDrop and AirPlay yet, in a way that's mass market compatible? Like, there is OpenDrop but that is dead since five years [1], it was a code dump by some researchers, and there are no client implementations to interact with Apple servers for getting keys, or with registering Find My devices... [1] - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

• Free and Open Source Alternative to Airdrop

  Would be cool if we sometime would get https://github.com/seemoo-lab/opendrop as an android app (but it would only work with rooted devices). This would allow to send and recieve files to iPhones from android via Apples Airdrop protocol. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• A passenger airdropped a bomb threat to everyone on the plane.

  Https://github.com/seemoo-lab/opendrop not like you can't spoof airdroping... Some hacker on the plane is laughing, this poor sob has no idea why he is having to spend a shitload on a lawyer. Source: almost 3 years ago

• Smartphone sales are so bad even the holidays couldn’t help, says IDC

  I guess that wouldn't be convenient because they'd have to press several buttons. Possibly also Airdrop is faster? It uses direct wi-fi transfer (and bluetooth at the same time, somehow). Seems there are open-source reverse-engineered implementations written in C and Python: OWL in C, OpenDrop in Python. Source: over 3 years ago

• Is there any way to get AirDrops on a Windows Laptop?

  I've been trying to make getting AirDrops on my Laptop possible for some time now and I can't do it. My best attempt yet was using opendrop inside of a WSL, but it didn't work. So I wanted to asked if anyone has a way that works to get AirDrops on a Windows Laptop. Source: over 3 years ago

• iOS 16 who’s updating today?

  I agree that it is frustrating when you can't simply send a file via bluetooth to an Android for instance but projects like these really make issues like that less of an issue. Source: almost 4 years ago

• Mom: We have Mac OS at home

  OpenDrop is an open, compatible implementation of Apple AirDrop. Source: almost 4 years ago

• Any reliable way to transfer very large videos from iPhone to PC? (Not using iCloud, etc)

  I don't really know if you can transfer mutliple files via AirDrop, but there is apparently a reverse engineered version up on GitHub called OpenDrop. Source: almost 4 years ago

• AirDrop for Android

  The only working airdrop compatible is opendrop which makes use of AWDL reverse engineer OWL. Source: about 4 years ago

• Join under iOS

  Opendrop (opensource airdrop) Opendrop allows you to use apples airdrop on non apple devices Upside is as it uses apple's airdrop no need to relly on a network connection or other clients Downside is it seems command line based. Source: over 4 years ago

• An open Apple AirDrop implementation written in Python

  You can use OWL to in combination with OpenDrop to enable Apple AirDrop functionality on Linux-based systems such as a Raspberry Pi 3. Source: over 4 years ago

• Hacker News top posts: Jan 2, 2022

  OpenDrop: An open Apple AirDrop implementation written in Python\ (3 comments). Source: over 4 years ago

• How do I transfer files from Linux to iOS and vice versa via local WLAN?

  This might work https://github.com/seemoo-lab/opendrop. - Source: Hacker News / over 4 years ago

• Apple iPhoto frame or emulator ?

  OpenDrop (https://github.com/seemoo-lab/opendrop) might be something for that. Source: over 4 years ago