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This is covered on slide 46 of the original researchers presentation.

"Oh, and… there’s a bypass switch for pairing anyway"

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"An electronic alternative to interdiction could be deployed by spoofing Apple’s certificates and configuring / pairing the device out of the box."

 "OR by penetrating a targeted organization, supervisor records can be used to pair with and access any device they’re supervising."



All that's saying is that they can use whatever mechanism is available to unlock the device. In an enterprise environment, the supervisor has the credentials to unlock the device.

> "Oh, and… there’s a bypass switch for pairing anyway"

Nice conjecture. Please show us actual evidence of that.




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