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by tedunangst 920 days ago
Alas, merely guessing, but it sounds like you can tell an apple device "I am the magic keyboard you know and trust" and it will believe you.
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Wouldn't that require knowing/guessing/brute-forcing a unique device identifier that's probably not available to be sniffed if the genuine keyboard in question isn't in use?
Perhaps there is a bug and the unique identifier isn't checked.
That was sort of the impression I got. It’s not that Apple is doing something unfixable, it’s that they have a bug that enables something that shouldn’t happen.

Still guessing here, but if I have a Magic Keyboard paired to my computer right now and I’m using it, is there any reason to let a second Magic Keyboard automatically pair itself?

If your Bluetooth device pretends to be the second Magic Keyboard and automatically pairs it could start injecting keystrokes. That seems like it would fit the description here.

Maybe (or maybe not) that involves pretending to be the first Magic Keyboard. Apple makes their stuff, they KNOW that no to have the same serial number (unlike some cheap stuff you can buy). But if they don’t protect against that…