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[–] smeg@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago (18 children)

If you have physical access to a device you can eventually do whatever you want with it, depends how organised the thief is

[–] frazorth@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago (12 children)

I would be curious to learn more, as this is a much touted security feature. If it's that easy to bypass then we need to understand the limitations.

Do you have any more information on this?

[–] 520@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (8 children)

The usual tactic is to send a phishing text to a number that calls it pretending to be Apple. They then get your Apple ID credentials and use that to unlock the device.

[–] blake@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As usual, people are the weakest link in security.

[–] 520@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Exactly. The protections on the iPhone themselves are actually very strong for the time the phone released in. Unless you've got NSA-level hardware hackers in your org, this is by far your best bet.

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Very much depends on your threat model. An iPhone is great if you trust Apple with the backdoor to your phone, if not then you're probably much more secure with GrapheneOS.

[–] 520@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

I mean yeah, obviously Apple isn't going to be able protect you much against a state-sponsored threat with their own private list of zero days, or Apple itself, but right now that's a small amount of people either are truly interested in fucking over.

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