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Things the guys who stole my phone have texted me to try to get me to unlock it - Gothamist (gothamist.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 59 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I think when you remotely wipe the phone you can make it show a message with your phone number, in case you're actually a honest person that found the phone instead of a thief.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

In the response posts to the article someone said they got the icloud address via reset request which you can use in iMessage.

Not an i phone person so i can't verify but thought id pass that along.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago

That’s interesting, never thought of that as an attack vector.