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In a jolly goodish and shivery ( and weird ! ) surety hemipteran , Apple ’s Smart Cover can be used to unlock any iPad 2 , even if there ’s a passcode on it . Here ’s how it lick . And here ’s how to fix it .
We ’ve sustain the security flaw with our own Smart Covers and iPad 2s running iOS 5 and it ’s just like the TV above — the bug easily unwrap your iPad 2 to unwanted eyes . And though you have to jump through a few ring to get there , it works like this :
• lock away a passcode enabled iPad 2
• harbour down power push until it reaches the shutoff slipper screen
• close-fitting Smart Cover
• Open Smart Cover
• Click scratch
I do n’t know how anyone would ’ve figure that out but it definitely works . decease through those steps exposes an iPad 2 ’s full home filmdom and apps ( you could blue-pencil them but ca n’t open any apps ) and even Spotlight previews . Perhaps more damning is that if you have an app unresolved before you shut up it ( like Mail or Messages ) , the user who broke into your iPad 2 will have full accession to that app ( and can see and station substance , etc . ) . The impertinent cover break in is limited , yes , but could be used maliciously to cheep e - chain armor that were n’t suppose to be peeped .
The only agency to mend this microbe is to disable Smart Cover unlocking in the General configurations menu . Annoying for Smart Cover owners but a workable stopgap solvent until Apple fix the bug . [ 9to5Mac ]
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