Two researchers claim have found a way of avoid the function of blocking of activation of iOS which prevents that nobody can use an iPhone or an iPad whose owner has communicated its loss.
The first report came on Sunday by an Indian security researcher called Hemanth Joseph, who began investigating possible ways to avoid this on a locked iPad acquired through eBay with iOS 10.1 version, which was released on October 24.
Activation lock is automatically activated when users activate the function search my iPhone through iCloud. Connects the device to their ID of Apple e prevents that nobody can access to the same without entering the password that has associated.
One of the few things that are allowed from the blockade of activation of iOS screen is connect the device to a Wi-Fi network, including the manual of one configuration. Hemanth had the idea of trying to circumvent the lock of screen introducing chains very long of characters in them fields of name of user and password of WPA2-Enterprise.
The researcher says that after a while, the screen froze, used the Smart Cover iPad sold by Apple to put the iPad to sleep and then opened it. This is supposed that returns the iPad to the State in which is had left, in this case, loading the screen WPA2 again with the long strings of characters that had introduced.
“After 20-25 seconds, the screen of add a network WiFi jumped to the screen of home of the iPad, avoiding thus the called lock of activation of find my iPhone”, said in an entry of his blog.
Hemanth said that communicated the problem to Apple the 4 of November, and that the company it is investigating.
On Thursday, another researcher named Benjamin Kunz Mejri, of the German team Vulnerability Lab, published a video showing the same method, but in the new version of iOS 10.1.1.
He method of Kunz Mejri is similar and also involves introduce long chains of characters in them fields of form of add a new network WiFi, but also requires turn the screen of the tablet to disable the lock after the trick of the Smart Cover.
Apple has not yet confirmed this problem.
