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Here's What Apple Retail's New Machine to Update iPhones in the Box Looks Like (www.macrumors.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[+] [email protected] -6 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I think this is very clever, a great idea. I also think someone is going to figure out how to turn on iphones via NFC and upload malware of some kind.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago

The patent lists out an authentication process to ensure updates are coming from and going to approved devices.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

I doubt it? I’m not sure how it works but I could definitely see it working without having to transfer any data at all. All it has to be is a glorified QI charger and the phone can auto-update itself from Apple’s servers just like any other iPhone.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

All OS updates are signed If what you are saying were possible, then all phones would always be susceptible to a man in the middle attack of someone faking apple's server to send a fake OS update. All this seems to be is a qi charger that has the ability to also turn the phone on / off then it can just connect to apple's server and update itself like normal.