Moscow police officers stop people, request their phones to read their messages

Re:Moscow police officers stop people, request their phones ... by gruez on Sunday March 06, 2022 @11:15AM (#30578542)

>on iOS you can get around the automatic grab by pair locking your device

Not really? In the same guide it says

>If you later want to remove this restriction you can Remove -> Profiles... in Configurator, analogous to step 15.

Basically, you're just hoping that the minimum wage employee at the TSA doesn't know about removing the profile.

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Re:Moscow police officers stop people, request their phones ... by rawling on Sunday March 06, 2022 @12:11PM (#30579023)

Isn't that a step that has to take place on the paired laptop?

Earlier the article says

> This setting controls when someone can remove the profile from within the phone itself. If it’s left as the default value of “Always” then anyone with access to your unlocked phone could remove the pair lock (which would defeat the entire purpose). You can either set it to Never to never allow removing the profile, or With Authorization and set a password to allow removing the profile with the given password (this might be useful to remove the pairing restriction if you do lose access to your laptop).

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Re:Moscow police officers stop people, request their phones ... by b3morales on Sunday March 06, 2022 @12:15PM (#30579065)

That step can't be performed from a computer that's not already trusted by the iOS device. I.e., it can only be the one it's pair-locked to.

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