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  1. A+ for customer-friendly behaviour for Apple. After a 3rd-party repair of the iPhone 6 with not original replacement parts and an update to the newest iOS version the phone locks up and become useless as a brick http://www.theguardian.com/money/2016/feb/05/error-53-apple-iphone-software-update-handset-worthless-third-party-repair

    Friday, 05-Feb-16 18:41:40 UTC from Choqok
    1. @adiwan I can see why the hardware check is there, but I can't understand why they'd configure it to brick the handset, rather than just aggressively disabling features requiring the secure enclave. Those features all have a fallback mode anyway, so it wouldn't even require additional coding.

      Friday, 05-Feb-16 19:19:00 UTC from web
      1. @ceruleanspark I can see that too but enabling the check at a later OS update is still puzzling beyond imagination. Why wasn't the check there in the first place if this is such a central in their security concept? (besides the fact that fingerprints can be easily copied, which renders the fingerprint reader as insecure)

        Friday, 05-Feb-16 19:28:22 UTC from Choqok
        1. @adiwan If it were anyone else I'd say it was a beta thing for easier security tests that accidentally got left in the master release.

          Friday, 05-Feb-16 19:47:22 UTC from web