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Bypassing regulatory locks, hacking AirPods and Faraday cages

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Re: Bypassing regulatory locks, hacking AirPods and Faraday cages

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Post by pasc1878 »

afh1 wrote: post #170
pasc1878 wrote: post #141

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Yes it does make sense in the general case. In the approved countries a regulatory body has had to approve this as a medical aid. If medical aids etc did not have to be approved then things that actually hurt and kill people could be sold as medical aids. The issue here is that this case appears to be a non damaging aid and so it looks silly to ban it. But regulations have to work otherwise they are of no use. The is…

Thank God for regulators! How dangerous would life be otherwise. How could we live without them?

Look at 19th Century deaths in places like coal mines, deaths due to poisonous medicines, asbestos, lack of sewage.

Public health has had more effect than anyother medical change.

Re: Bypassing regulatory locks, hacking AirPods and Faraday cages

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Post by afh1 »

pasc1878 wrote: post #191
afh1 wrote: post #170

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thank God for regulators! How dangerous would life be otherwise. How could we live without them?

Look at 19th Century deaths in places like coal mines, deaths due to poisonous medicines, asbestos, lack of sewage. Public health has had more effect than anyother medical change.

Constructing sewage, the evolving history of work, and regulating hearing aids have very little in common, and apart from the last very little to do with regulators.

Re: Bypassing regulatory locks, hacking AirPods and Faraday cages

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Post by trhway »

rtkwe wrote: post #172
trhway wrote: post #137

>modern devices position you within cities by using a combination of WiFi SSIDs + MAC addresses of routers and devices around you as well as GPS to triangulate your location. This was also the reason that our WiFi only iPad was able to display an accurate location in apps even though it had neither GPS nor cellular. can't wait for this to find its way into Tomahawk missiles as a fallback for the jammed GPS environmen…

They can already perform accurate strikes without GPS with terrain following and INS so not sure this would actually help it that much.

My point wasn't about it being necessary. The point is what it may happen as part of complex engineering involving multiple components and large organizations. And/or by integrating consumer tech - the cheap consumer drones are actively used in the modern war and they may have such fallback mode which would be fine for civilian drone, until of course the drone gets a real warhead attached :)

Re: Bypassing regulatory locks, hacking AirPods and Faraday cages

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Post by myself248 »

thel3l wrote: post #175
myself248 wrote: post #67

This is fantastic! We're building a walk-in-closet-sized Faraday cage at i3Detroit, though of course we're in the US so we won't need it for this specific hack, there's a zillion reasons it's fun to have one! Off the top of my head: The biggie is that we're right down the street from WOMC's transmitter, which is 135,000 watts EIRP. It gets into EVERYTHING and makes other RF measurements more difficult, so if you're t…

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 life size Faraday cage at Indian Institute of Science—felt good to see that the construction was similar to our approach

Oh sweet! I've used little tabletop ones at work, and ended up building myself one using the housing of some scrapped microwave equipment (it got hit by lightning so the circuits were junk, but the RF-gasketed housing was in great shape.) It worked but I never built many passthroughs for it.

The trouble with the tabletop ones is that it's such a pain to set up all the I/O passthroughs and stuff, often it's just not justifiable to go through the hassle, and it just doesn't get used.

Being able to walk in and just use your own hands to manipulate the DUT is huge. If you're not dealing with high power, it's plenty safe, and it just saves a ton of time.

Re: Bypassing regulatory locks, hacking AirPods and Faraday cages

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Post by criddell »

makeitdouble wrote: post #180
criddell wrote: post #163

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How do Sony or Bose have any kind of retail advantage? What stores that sell Sony and Bose don't also sell Apple stuff? Plus Apple has their own stores which make more money per square foot than just about any other retailer.

You seem to be painting Sony or Bose as some small upstart that struggle to get store shelf. I'm not sure to follow. Sony funnily also has presence in many specialized and/or non tech shops (select goods shops etc.) where they could be only two or three earbuds. If Apple didn't get the certification, having a spot for Sony's or Bose's ones could have been a natural choice if the shop targeted that kind of demographic…

There aren't enough of those specialized shops to make a difference. Certainly not enough to present a sizeable disadvantage for Apple. If anything, not being in the Apple Store presents a sizeable disadvantage for Sony.

Re: Bypassing regulatory locks, hacking AirPods and Faraday cages

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Post by beardyw »

trhway wrote: post #137

>modern devices position you within cities by using a combination of WiFi SSIDs + MAC addresses of routers and devices around you as well as GPS to triangulate your location. This was also the reason that our WiFi only iPad was able to display an accurate location in apps even though it had neither GPS nor cellular. can't wait for this to find its way into Tomahawk missiles as a fallback for the jammed GPS environmen…

Google street view cars have been collecting this data since the beginning. Google have, or at least had, an api where you can feed in mac addresses (SSIDs are an irrelevance) and get a location.

Re: Bypassing regulatory locks, hacking AirPods and Faraday cages

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Post by pasc1878 »

afh1 wrote: post #192
pasc1878 wrote: post #191

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Look at 19th Century deaths in places like coal mines, deaths due to poisonous medicines, asbestos, lack of sewage. Public health has had more effect than anyother medical change.

Constructing sewage, the evolving history of work, and regulating hearing aids have very little in common, and apart from the last very little to do with regulators.

Yes they do look at some history.

Re: Bypassing regulatory locks, hacking AirPods and Faraday cages

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Post by klausa »

withinboredom wrote: post #144
gorbypark wrote: post #128

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I'm a bit perplexed about region handling, maybe you could shed some light on it. I have an iPhone from Canada, with a Canadian Apple account (Canadian CC/billing address, set location to Canada in App Store), but live in Spain for the last few years. I am still fully "Canadian" according to Apple. I don't get any of the 3rd party App Store stuff that's region locked to the EU, and have access to Apple Intelligence a…

You can login with a second account that is an EU account, my wife went this route. You get the best of both worlds. I ended up transferring my account to an EU account (pro-tip, you may be on the phone with Apple support for 6+ hours if the automation fails). I still have access to both US-specific features (like Apple Cash in USD and the feature in this article) and EU-specific features (like the new app store stuf…

Are you _physically_ in the EU too?

I'm surprised that this worked for you, my main Apple ID is a German one, with active CC/subscriptions/etc; but I am physically in Japan and definitely don't get to play Fortnite on my phone.

Re: Bypassing regulatory locks, hacking AirPods and Faraday cages

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Post by withinboredom »

klausa wrote: post #199
withinboredom wrote: post #144

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can login with a second account that is an EU account, my wife went this route. You get the best of both worlds. I ended up transferring my account to an EU account (pro-tip, you may be on the phone with Apple support for 6+ hours if the automation fails). I still have access to both US-specific features (like Apple Cash in USD and the feature in this article) and EU-specific features (like the new app store stuf…

Are you _physically_ in the EU too? I'm surprised that this worked for you, my main Apple ID is a German one, with active CC/subscriptions/etc; but I am physically in Japan and definitely don't get to play Fortnite on my phone.

Yes, I'm physically in the EU. I'd be curious if you set your computer up as an access point and connected to a VPN (so the phone won't know if it is on a VPN) and then use an exit point in the EU. You could even go so far as spoofing GPS in your house using SDN to even make it think it is in the EU. (just don't forget to make the testing room a faraday cage to prevent any airplanes from getting confused).

I'd even be happy to repeat your cellular signals here in the EU, so you connect to EU towers.

That would be entertaining to see if it worked.

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