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The special features that enable Apple to remove security tethers from demo devices

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<p>[Update: Additional details below the fold.]</p>
<p>I suggested last week that Apple’s apparent move to <a href="https://9to5mac.com/2016/10/14/apple-stores-no-security-tether-on-products/" target="_blank">remove security tethers[/url] from demo devices in its retail stores likely wasn’t too risky thanks to a range of hidden security measures, and we’ve been hearing a little detail on how some of these work.</p>
<p>Apple has long had special OS images for demo devices. You can’t, for example, set a passcode on a iOS device and then lock it, and Macs revert to their original state after a reboot.</p>
<p>Apple regularly tweaks these images. For example, at one time you could go into Safari and change the homepage to any site you liked; there’s now a lock-out to prevent this.</p>
<p>One security feature on the current display models of both iOS devices and Macs is designed to instantly render them useless if someone removes them from the store …</p>
<p> <a href="https://9to5mac.com/2016/10/17/apple-store-security-tethers-demo-devices/#more-450372" class="more-link">more…[/url]</p>
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