This is a very entertaining and educational article, giving insights into the methods used by thiefs to try and get access to your phone data.

I don’t like Apple but it’s great that their security is so good when it comes to this.

  • @[email protected]
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    285 months ago

    I also fucking hate Apple, with the same seething rage that redhats hate Windows, and I too must admit this is shockingly effective security.

    • @[email protected]
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      105 months ago

      Is it though? The author of this article knows what they’re doing, but a regular person would probably not be as relaxed with some of the threats. I didn’t see this in the article, how does the thief have the ability to contact the victim?

        • @[email protected]
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          15 months ago

          Sure. My point was that exposing someone to scams like social engineering is really really bad and far less desirable than keeping an open line of communication for a purchase

            • @[email protected]
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              15 months ago

              my experience with iCloud is pretty bad. I worked in a startup at some point which was giving Macs to employees and sort of expected them to figure it out. We had a few people quit and that’s when we figured out that the macs became shiny useless things since we didn’t have access to wipe the associated account and Apple didn’t help in any way. So, from my experience, this is a horrible “feature”.

              Now i find out that it’s even worse and it gives 3rd parties means to harass you… I really think that avoiding theft comes at a far to high a price

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        25 months ago

        Oh it could be better for sure. But he’s got access to all the messages and data, getting a number at that point is probably trivial.