Indian Discovered Bug To Bypass iPad Lock

An Indian security researcher has discovered a bug that allows one to bypass Apple’s activation lock in its iOS 10.1 version, according to a media report. Hemanth Joseph, resident of Kerala, succeeded in bypassing the activation lock of an iPad he had bough online by exploiting a weakness in the iOS device setup process. When Joseph was asked to select a Wi-Fi network, he chose ‘other network’ and selected WPA2-enterprise as  the type of network to connect to, that gave him three input fields to fill – name, username and password. Upon testing he came to know that there is no character restriction in those fields and he typed thousands of characters than what iOS could handle. This caused the iPad to freeze, following which he locked the device by closing Apple’s magnetic Smart Cover over the screen. After opening the cover, the device was at the same screen, but as few seconds passed by, it crashed to iOS home screen. This made Joseph bypass the activation lock and to have full access to the iPad. The bug discovered by Joseph was reportedly fixed in an iOS update last month. Researchers at a US-based lab had earlier discovered another bug that allowed one to break the Apple lock.