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Re: Apple Watch Ultra 2 Hacked

#51

Post by znpy »

jiggawatts wrote: post #49
LeoPanthera wrote: post #17

This is so hard to believe that I simply don't. Either the user had a bad digitizer, and misread and/or hallucinated the "We are in control" message, or the entire story is made up. Perhaps a group of people working together to post "Hey me too!" stories? I'm not sure what the motive would be, though. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and this is beyond believability.

It's pretty obviously fake. A bunch of "level 1" (new) users, all with the same story? They literally mention the exact time & date in the same style, and mention the 1-minute lockout in the same way as well. Two of them use the same timestamp even, down to the minute. Also, something I noticed working for large orgs with over 100K staff and 1M users: An appreciable fraction of the human population is simply mentally…

I own an iPhone and i would be a level 1 / new user if i had issues.

Otherwise, why on earth would i care about signing up to apple forums?

I’d only go there if i had issues (obviously)

Re: Apple Watch Ultra 2 Hacked

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Post by Szpadel »

dch82 wrote: post #36
LeoPanthera wrote: post #17

This is so hard to believe that I simply don't. Either the user had a bad digitizer, and misread and/or hallucinated the "We are in control" message, or the entire story is made up. Perhaps a group of people working together to post "Hey me too!" stories? I'm not sure what the motive would be, though. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and this is beyond believability.

> I'm not sure what the motive would be, though. To make Apple Watch antivirus scams?

maybe some kind of anti commercial to not trust apple products? but I wouldn't suspect any major brands for something at this level, so maybe just bunch of people trying to mess with people believes like it was multiple times in the past? like with charging iPhone in microwave etc, basically noone benefits just some folks want to see people panic

Re: Apple Watch Ultra 2 Hacked

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Post by account-5 »

jeppester wrote: post #37
tinycoder25 wrote: post #29

I wonder why most of the comments take it very casually and say may be issue with digitizer/ghost touch. Had it been any other OEM, this would have been such a big issue with anecdotes of why people trust apple products.

Exactly. This comment section really is a display of the Apple bias on HN. I don't doubt that this might be nothing, but seeing all these commenters completely dismissing it is rather odd. Hopefully Apple is less dismissive of this potential security issue.

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Re: Apple Watch Ultra 2 Hacked

#55

Post by numpad0 »

tinycoder25 wrote: post #29

I wonder why most of the comments take it very casually and say may be issue with digitizer/ghost touch. Had it been any other OEM, this would have been such a big issue with anecdotes of why people trust apple products.

I had been locked out of iPhone in my pocket in hot summers due to presumably ghost touches. Maybe people know it happens with Apple products.

Re: Apple Watch Ultra 2 Hacked

#56

Post by dontupvoteme »

jiggawatts wrote: post #49
LeoPanthera wrote: post #17

This is so hard to believe that I simply don't. Either the user had a bad digitizer, and misread and/or hallucinated the "We are in control" message, or the entire story is made up. Perhaps a group of people working together to post "Hey me too!" stories? I'm not sure what the motive would be, though. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and this is beyond believability.

It's pretty obviously fake. A bunch of "level 1" (new) users, all with the same story? They literally mention the exact time & date in the same style, and mention the 1-minute lockout in the same way as well. Two of them use the same timestamp even, down to the minute. Also, something I noticed working for large orgs with over 100K staff and 1M users: An appreciable fraction of the human population is simply mentally…

FWIW - The commonality of alien abductions can actually be decently explained by sleep paralysis + hallucinations (+ the mind already having been 'seeded' by the idea).

It's something that perfectly sane people could experience and not realize it was a hallucination because it's a quite rare & unknown phenomenon(and one that you often won't mention because everyone thinks you're crazy if you say it).

Re: Apple Watch Ultra 2 Hacked

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Post by jeffhuys »

znpy wrote: post #51
jiggawatts wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's pretty obviously fake. A bunch of "level 1" (new) users, all with the same story? They literally mention the exact time & date in the same style, and mention the 1-minute lockout in the same way as well. Two of them use the same timestamp even, down to the minute. Also, something I noticed working for large orgs with over 100K staff and 1M users: An appreciable fraction of the human population is simply mentally…

I own an iPhone and i would be a level 1 / new user if i had issues. Otherwise, why on earth would i care about signing up to apple forums? I’d only go there if i had issues (obviously)

Okay, that covers 1/5th of the parent comment.

Re: Apple Watch Ultra 2 Hacked

#58

Post by caskstrength »

MichaelMug wrote: post #32

I don't know what the catalyst for this was, but a lot of 20 years olds and younger seem to use the word hacked so casually. I read it all the time, "my insta was hacked", etc. I would really like to know if hacking is as common as it is reported rather than a successful phishing campaign, a simple issue of forgotten password or getting locked out of email, account ban for rule violation, or something else entirely u…

> I don't know what the catalyst for this was, but a lot of 20 years olds and younger seem to use the word hacked so casually.

It is a mechanism of shifting responsibility. If your password is "1234" and you gave it away to a totally legit MS support center employee that called you recently because MS has detected that your iPhone has a virus, then it is on you. But if North Korean hackers compromised your watch via elaborate hacking campaign to mine bitcoin on it, then it is "not your fault".

Re: Apple Watch Ultra 2 Hacked

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Post by a9ex »

I had a similar issue with my Apple Watch a couple weeks back. It would randomly input touches without me interacting with the display at all.

I restarted it and the issue was gone - I doubt there was any hacking involved.

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