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Apple Watch Ultra 2 Hacked

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Re: Apple Watch Ultra 2 Hacked

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Post by andrepd »

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…

Anecdotal, but 17 years ago it was also common to say "my runescape got hacked!" when in fact you typed your password on some runes-cape.freewebs.biz :)

Re: Apple Watch Ultra 2 Hacked

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Post by teekert »

RockRobotRock wrote: post #85
pflenker wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Typing „we are in control“ would go beyond the ghost touch issue, if we believe the first reporter.

I think it's way more likely that whoever made that post is trolling, or suffered from some kind of schizophrenic delusion (or maybe some really really unlucky markov chain)

I think you’re right, with this low N it can always be an attention grab.

Re: Apple Watch Ultra 2 Hacked

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Post by yreg »

TheAceOfHearts wrote: post #34

First of all, why would anyone even care about you enough to want to steal whatever health data is available? Is there any particularly sensitive personal info stored there? Second, presumably if one gains access to the device through a sophisticated hack they'd probably also be able to exfiltrate data without having to alert the user. With all of that being said, I wish there was some sort of black box mechanism for…

> First of all, why would anyone even care about you enough to want to steal whatever health data is available? Is there any particularly sensitive personal info stored there?

This is a strange argument. Of course there can be sensitive data there. Photos, (i)Messages, eMail, calendar events, addressbook, health data, voice recordings, location data. The device is password-protected for a reason.

It is also usually connected to a paired iPhone and to the Internet. You might be able to do some shady stuff with the phone using private APIs.

Re: Apple Watch Ultra 2 Hacked

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Post by wesamco »

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?

Hoaxers hoping to drum up enough news stories to impact Apple's share price to make money on shorting it?

Re: Apple Watch Ultra 2 Hacked

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Post by infinitedata »

sebazzz wrote: post #20
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 wonder how such hack would even work. The watch does have the option to control it remotely, through the iPhone accessibility options, but obviously this only works with the paired iPhone and not over the internet.

Apple Employees can certainly access your devices remotely, I have seen it happening with iPhone, I don’t know about Watch.

Nevertheless, this does seem like an anti-Apple campaign.

Re: Apple Watch Ultra 2 Hacked

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Post by rootsudo »

whycome wrote: post #66
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…

There's this site that provides news for these "hackers" and I'm not convinced any of them actually do any hacking.

How do we have time where there’s so much else going on?

Re: Apple Watch Ultra 2 Hacked

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Post by infinitedata »

BSDobelix wrote: post #75

This whole thread is filled with terrible advice and wannabe Snow-Crash writers, plus people who think "hackers" are scrolling through your files just to get to your fitness files. I am kind of shocked, that state of mind was acceptable around 95-2000, but not a quarter millennium later. I for sure live i a bubble, but are people really like that?

*quarter of a century. A millenium is 1,000 years and quarter of a millenium would be in 2,250

Re: Apple Watch Ultra 2 Hacked

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Post by pflenker »

nneonneo wrote: post #67
pflenker wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Typing „we are in control“ would go beyond the ghost touch issue, if we believe the first reporter.

I am inclined to believe that the first reporter only thinks they saw this, not that it actually occurred (or they saw some random words appear on the keyboard that resembled this phrase).

„Popping up a keyboard“ as the user described is also not something trivially possible on the watch. That raised a red(ish) flag for me.
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