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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 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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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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[–] mx_smith 55 points 6 months ago (18 children)

I’m confused, in the article he said it was a brick to whoever has his stolen phone. How did they get his phone number to send him text messages? Did they crack the passcode and needed the iCloud password?

[–] [email protected] 60 points 6 months ago (2 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.

[–] Dashi 23 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 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.

[–] mx_smith 12 points 6 months ago

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

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