Things the guys who stole my phone have texted me to try to get me to unlock it
gothamist.com
Don’t fall for these texts from scammers trying to crack into your stolen phone.

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.

  • @danlEnglish
    4•7 months ago

    You couldn’t remote in to type in your password?

    • @TrickDacyEnglish
      -2•7 months ago

      I don’t have the type of position where that would be needed or considered appropriate. Why should I need to anyhow? A lot of people are missing the point here. Logging into a service (especially one I didn’t want or need but was harassed into doing it) should not unexpectedly be considered proof of ownership.

      The scenario wasn’t that during os setup I was asked to login. And I wasn’t prompted with a warning that this could happen. What happened was every time I opened system settings for months it wanted me to login to iCloud and no matter how many times I refused it just kept asking.

      • @danlEnglish
        8•7 months ago

        Nah - you’re complaining that you “were forced into handing your password to someone else” when there were at least six ways you could have avoided that:

        • you gone to the computer,
        • they send the computer to you,
        • you remote in to the computer,
        • you tell them “suck it, you should have blocked iCloud sign-in with MDM” or, as others mentioned,
        • you sign out before handing the computer back or, my favourite,
        • don’t sign in to personal accounts on work devices even if they bug you to.

        Finally, we release devices like this all the time through our ABM account. It takes 5 days maximum. Your IT team led you up the garden path.

        • NatanaelEnglish
          1•7 months ago

          It was a small company, as he said elsewhere, negating your first 4 options, and the last two of blaming the user are equally stupid because Apple can fix this and doesn’t want to. Not everybody has an MDM tool which can set up ownership right for Apple devices - and they should not have to

          It’s shameful that you have a bunch of upvotes and he’s getting downvotes

        • @TrickDacyEnglish
          -3•7 months ago

          You are bending over backwards to justify absolute garbage practices. I am aware there were literally other ways around this. I was more referring to being forced into a situation where I’d even need to consider this.

          Yes, I shouldn’t have used my personal account… however I also should have never expected doing so to tell apple “I own this shit please make sure no one else can use it ever without my permission”. Logging into iCloud should mean “I want to use iCloud”, which btw I NEVER wanted to do. Every time I opened system settings the piece of shit insisted I login to it. That alone is a problem. But I’m sure you’ll justify that one too.