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by lbenes 2955 days ago
Great article, thanks for sharing.

spoiler: FCC part was clever, but what fakery? Are you talking about the "golden path" or something else I missed after a quick read?

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They faked the phone's signal bars to always show five bars, since it was expected that the radio software would crash somewhere in the 90-minute presentation.
Was it a presentation about their novel new signal bars?
>The solution, he says, was to tweak the AirPort software so that it seemed to be operating in Japan instead of the United States. Japanese Wi-Fi uses some frequencies that are not permitted in the U.S.