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thel3l
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Comment #49152172
Last week, I built a search engine as a side project over electoral data. Unsolicited, I've started to get messages like this, where Claudes are voicing their opinions to me throug…
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Comment #42128919
Yes!! Shocked we made it this far in life without one! Itching to put devices inside and light the air inside up without worrying about licensing! We actually ended up seeing a lif…
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Comment #42126396
Yeah, Apple sometimes checks MCC/MNC on the cellular network as well, for some reason they chose not to lock it down that way here. However, if they did lock it to require an iPhon…
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Comment #42126326
This was one of the rabbitholes I chased down, but didn't find anything. At some level, this was just the easier approach :) I'm sure there's something though. Apple changed the UR…
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Comment #42125309
That's exactly what we did in the end—used a commercial VPN and provided internet to the device over the USB cable. Could have probably used a Tailscale on a VPS somewhere too.
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Comment #42125298
Yep, sorry! It is Binary Ninja
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Comment #42125288
Binary Ninja: https://binary.ninja/ :) Think someone has already linked it below!
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Comment #42124852
5GHz has quite low penetrating power, so for the most part our issue was 2.4GHz.
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Comment #42124838
Probably would work, however I suspect the changes would not be as sticky. Apple has some slightly more complex checks that they have used in the past to georestrict stuff like ECG…
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Comment #42124827
It's all too early to tell, but we'll know after a week or so. The battery life thing is not seeming like a big problem, since the existing device needs batteries changed every few…
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Comment #42120309
Thank you for reading and the kind words! We're almost looking forward to this loophole being shut down to really make things a tad bit more challenging haha We've got some ideas f…
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Comment #42120206
haha, I think I've got many miles to go before I'm qualified to answer this :') I've just been hacking away at things since I was in middle school, am lucky that there's some trans…
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Comment #42120143
We built it ourselves actually! The first prototype was just aluminium foil, tape and hope, but we wanted something more solid so we built one out of n°100 copper mesh and some 202…
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Comment #42119697
Hey! I'm Rithwik, one of the authors of the article, happy to answer questions etc!
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Comment #42119678
Heya! One of the authors here. Nope, its a one time thing. When the feature is enabled, a flag is set on the iCloud account, so you can travel anywhere and have it work. At the sam…
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Comment #40259506
Hey there, author here! Unfortunately, we're not able to share all the details until the issues are patched and can't share the APK because (legal reasons) That said, I've already …
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