iPad 2 Smart Cover Security Flaw Discovered In iOS 5
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iPad 2 Smart Cover Security Flaw Discovered In iOS 5
If you own an iPad 2 with Smart Cover then you should read this post.
Folks at 9 to 5 Mac have discovered a security flaw, which can allow anyone to gain unauthorized access to your iPad 2 with Smart Cover in iOS 5. The security flaw allows someone to gain acces to iPad 2 even if you've passcode protected it.
9 to 5 Mac reports:
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Big deal! Seriously, you can't do **** anyway once you get through. All the apps are unusable.
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Did not work on my iPad 2 iOS 4.3.5
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Dude.... it says IOS5 on the title...
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Oh no. iOS 5.01 coming soon!
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I hope the guys at Apple fix this soon, specially now that lots of companies are deploying iPads!
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How can i watch p.orn? i want to watch p.orn while my b.itch s.uck my d.ick? i know there i back facing camera =P thats a plus!
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lol dude...
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lol, i think he didn't even bother to read the title completely...
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Seriously, who holds down the power button until it asks you to slide to turn off, then ignores it and closes the cover?This is one of those oddball security problems, which only about 1 person in about 100 million would do. Why the hell would you want to turn off the ipad in the first place? And then forget to slide to turn off? Anyways, even if you DO happen to do this, it will show almost no info that you need to worry about, unless you did it when you were doing some online banking and did the arcane power off and close the cover.
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No kidding. I thought they meant that whatever you're doing, if you close the smart cover, it'll wake the device and bypass the passcode. THAT would be a huge flaw. This is simply a half-functional loose end that, thanks to 9 to 5 Mac, people now know how to do (fun fact: bad people have the internet too).
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This security flaw isn't for iPad owners to try, it's for iPad thieves.
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It is a serious flaw...However, I think it is no problem when the smart cover control is set to OFF...
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you dont have to press power of u just put in sleep and whoever wants to look at ur stuff holds power and then opens and presses cancel. So its not 1 in a millon its 1 of 1 that has a smart cover ios5 and has auto unlock. But still its not a big deal.
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Did not work on 5.0.1
