an indian dude just hacked his grandma's airpods pro 2 using a microwave, because she wanted to use them as a hearing aid, but the feature wasn’t available in india

here’s how it went down:

he turned a microwave into a faraday cage to block signals

connected an esp32 board to his ipad, spamming hundreds of ssid addresses from california

after 4 hours, the ipad finally thought it was in the us

boom, hearing aid mode activated

now he and his friends are working on unlocking the feature for everyone in india

tim cook, you genius, making people pay for features they can’t even use everywhere