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<p>A white-hat hacker was able to hijack <a href="
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<p>Ryan Pickren disclosed the vulnerabilities to Apple in December of last year. The company fixed the most serious of them in January, and the rest last month.</p>
<p>The approach relied on an exception to the normal <a href="
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