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You are now inside the body of a high profile person you know nothing of. How would you try to maintain the facade of that individual with least suspicion? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/asklemmy

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Imagine you wake up in the body of a famous and influential person in the bedroom where that person sleeps in. You know nothing about that individual prior to this incident apart from the fact that they are considered a high profile person.

Your only chance of survival here is to act like that person in front of their family, friends and the public for the rest of the unforeseeable future. How do you ensure you learn to imitate the personality of the individual by arousing the least amount of suspicion?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Regarding behavior: Pretend I met god in a dream and use that as an excuse to explain away any discrepencies in behavior.

As for figuring out everything else. Here: (I'm gonna be making a lot of assumptions, bear with me):

First of all, if the amount of people that are considered "high profile" are probably mostly celebrities or prominent CEOs. Chances are, the person would have an iPhone with icloud backup enabled (unless I get unlucky and got into director of a 3 letter agency, in which case my plan would probably get derailed, but anyways, lets presume I don't get unlucky), I would have to hope Face ID still works and haven't reached the 24 hour (or was it 72 hours? whatever) mark, which would require pin, and that'd suck. But assuming Face ID works, I'd quickly go into settings and reset the icloud password using Face ID [yeah you heard it right, it doesn't prompt for icloud password, thanks Apple :)], once thats done, I'd go through every photo and notes and everything I can find on their phone. Since the phone eventually would prompt for PIN, I'd have to backup the data, then reset the phone, then restore from backup. Hopefully this person does Journals/Diaries, that'd also provide more information about their life.

If this person doesn't use biometrics, or if it reached an interval that requires PIN, then I'd have to borrow someones phone and contact apple to reset the Apple ID password. Hopefully, the person is on good terms with Tim Cook and a quick video call would get my icloud password reset, then I'd reset my iPhone, log with Apple ID, then restore from icloud backup. Search all the info... etc.

If this person is an android user, it could get tougher especially because android backups to google aren't as complete as iCloud backups. If biometrics work, I'd connect to a PC, and backup to PC. Then reset the phone (remember, the phone would eventually prompt for the PIN, so resetting is necessary), and restore from backup. If biometrics don't work, I'd have to hope google backups have enough information for my transition into this body as seamless as possible. I'd have to call Google CEO and hopefully this person is on good terms with the Google CEO and get the password reset. Then reset the phone, log in, restore from cloud. Hope theres enough data backed up to google, fingers crossed.

If the person was director of a 3 letter agency, they'd probably not have a normal phone, especially not one backup to cloud, so I'd probaby have to immediately resign and pretend like I saw a ghost or something, then just enjoy retirement.