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Dev tools · July 24, 2014

HI

How I bypassed Exchange security on Android

I was messing around with AOSPA, wanted to figure out a way to bypass the encryption requirement to get exchange mails. Initially I thought I would have to modify the Email app or the part where the OS the administrative provisioning. But as it turns out all I had to do was comment out 8 lines of code private int getEncryptionStatus() { /*String status = SystemProperties.get("ro.crypto.state", "unsupported"); if ("encrypted".equalsIgnoreCase(status)) { return DevicePolicyManager.ENCRYPTION_STATUS_ACTIVE; } else if ("unencrypted".equalsIgnoreCase(status)) { return…

How I bypassed Exchange security on Android launched on July 24, 2014 with 8 votes and more than 50% of that year's launches.

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