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These Guys Hacked AirPods to Give Their Grandmas Hearing Aids

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Feed Name: WIRED Security

Date Published: 2024-11-13

Date Updated: 2026-04-26

Author: Matt Burgess, Lily Hay Newman

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Researchers from the Lagrange Point collective showed how to bypass Apple’s country-based restrictions for AirPods Pro 2 on a Wi‑Fi–only iPad by probing iOS’s multi-factor location checks, including Apple Store region, time zone, language, IP geolocation, SSIDs, GPS triangulation, and nearby device MAC addresses—highlighting that IP masking alone is insufficient.

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