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Re: iPhone that fell from hole in Alaska 737 MAX flight is found, still open to Mail

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Post by TwoNineFive »

elzbardico wrote: post #12
aurareturn wrote: post #2

A lot of things went into my head: * The iPhone owner didn't put a password/passcode? * Damn, he paid Alaska $70 for baggage fee? * Now we know an iPhone will survive falling from the sky

Non technical users do some things that we don't even dream about doing, like setting auto-lock to "Never". EDIT: I see some people got offended with the bit about Non-Technical users and downvoted me to Hades. I apologize. Not everyone is paranoid like me.

No, you are right, the plebs are wrong.

It's a feelz > realz world where people vote with their feelz and you made them feel bad because they are doing dumb bad things.

It should always be possible to set a device timeout to never and allow WEP56 auth on your WiFi AP, but there should be a warning about the implications.

Re: iPhone that fell from hole in Alaska 737 MAX flight is found, still open to Mail

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Post by graton »

irrational wrote: post #29

It is strange two phones have been found, but not the door. Most of the Cedar Hills/Beaverton area is houses and shops with sporadic green spaces that aren’t that large in comparison. It is possible the door fell into a green space, but the odds are it did not. I imagine it is in someone’s backyard, but it is January in rainy Oregon. People aren’t doing yard work right now. I wouldn’t be surprised if it isn’t found u…

The door was found. Here is the NTSB official YouTube channel where they discuss that it was found:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7Pfj8G7Rdg

Re: iPhone that fell from hole in Alaska 737 MAX flight is found, still open to Mail

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Post by gnicholas »

kaba0 wrote: post #137
gnicholas wrote: post #131

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I actually wondered about this. My iPhone can be located even when turned off, so long as I haven't deactivated that functionality at shutdown (has to be done each time). Is an iPhone in airplane mode really less trackable than an iPhone that is turned off?

Find My is bluetooth-based, which is fine to use on airplanes as well.

I feel like the BT behavior varies when I activate airplane mode. If I am currently connected to my BT headphones, they stay connected. If I am not, then activating airplane mode appears to turn off BT (pulling out my headphones and trying to connect doesn't work). But I would be surprised if the Find My functionality didn't work in airplane mode, given how Apple set it up to work even when turned off (you must manually set it not to be active, and you must put in your passcode each time).

Re: iPhone that fell from hole in Alaska 737 MAX flight is found, still open to Mail

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Post by azinman2 »

wannacboatmovie wrote: post #149
xuancanh wrote: post #142

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The name in the email is a generic Vietnamese origin name, so while I agree with you about privacy, the post didn't expose much information about the owner.

I have to agree with this. Over 40% of Vietnamese share the same surname, and only about a dozen or so are in common usage. The name reveals very little about the owner.

But how many on that flight?

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Post by smcleod »

azinman2 wrote: post #154
wannacboatmovie wrote: post #149

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have to agree with this. Over 40% of Vietnamese share the same surname, and only about a dozen or so are in common usage. The name reveals very little about the owner.

But how many on that flight?

Just going by the numbers I’d assume over 40% of the Vietnamese on the flight.

Re: iPhone that fell from hole in Alaska 737 MAX flight is found, still open to Mail

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Post by Beldin »

xcv123 wrote: post #148
ars wrote: post #134

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The phone was in airplane mode, so not actually trackable.

Airplane mode allows bluetooth, so it is trackable through Find My.

I was rather surprised at this comment. A quick google later it seems that airplane mode turns off all radio communication (as I suspected), but apparently it is possible to turn Bluetooth or WiFi on while remaining in airplane mode. At least for some phones.

Honestly did not consider that.

Re: iPhone that fell from hole in Alaska 737 MAX flight is found, still open to Mail

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Post by justinclift »

rramadass wrote: post #94

Damn! Apple has better QC than Boeing! Apple should seriously think about getting into the Aeroplane Manufacturing business; its there for their taking :-)

> better QC than Boeing!

Clearly that hasn't been a high bar for a long time. :(

Re: iPhone that fell from hole in Alaska 737 MAX flight is found, still open to Mail

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Post by ta1243 »

ant6n wrote: post #136
PakG1 wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Anyone could have been thrown off by that. But then I remembered that airplanes fly to and from cities, not provinces.

I wonder whether there a California, Ontario.

Apparently so

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanark_Highlands

No airport, so no planes from California Ontario to Ontario California

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