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iSECPartners / ios-ssl-kill-switch

ios-ssl-kill-switch

Blackbox tool to disable SSL certificate validation - including certificate pinning - within iOS Apps

8Distinct people
9Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
918GitHub stars
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What it is

Blackbox tool to disable SSL certificate validation - including certificate pinning - within iOS Apps

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 7:56:55 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year9 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2014-07-21 20:51:42 UTC to 2019-02-25 22:54:09 UTC.

01232014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments20142015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20162017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2019

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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It's not really a protection though. With a jailbroken phone you could probably change the key with a hex editor or similar. There's also this: https://github.com/iSECPartners/ios-ssl-kill-switch Also, you're totally screwed if you need to reissue your SSL cert for a security problem (think heartbleed). You'd have to reissue the cert, wait for apple to approve the update, then hope that a significant proportion of your users actually update your app.
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I've used MITMproxy for this. It's great fun to MITM every app on your phone, you'll find some really interesting stuff. I happened across a WSDL in the British Airways app that appeared to enable booking flights as if done by a member of staff back of house. It might have been possible to book flights and not pay for them, obviously I didn't go as far to test this. But like I say, interesting stuff. Tip: Some apps do SSL pinning so the handshake will fail with the cert that your proxy provides. You can disable any kind of SSL cert checks on a jailbroken iOS device with SSL kill switch (https://github.com/iSECPartners/ios-ssl-kill-switch)
In Discovering private APIs with Charles.app

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