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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 teekert »

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…

So true. Normies be using security questions like “What was your fist dog called?” while posting about their first dog’s name in public #insta while complaining about being targeted by a 1337 h4x0r.

Re: Apple Watch Ultra 2 Hacked

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Post by lagadu »

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…

Hacking is largely used to mean the breaching of a system by some unauthorized actor, and why shouldn't it? Word meanings change over time and this one got broader.

That said, phishing is a form of hacking the individual so even by a strict definition it still works.

Re: Apple Watch Ultra 2 Hacked

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Post by badgersnake »

Toutouxc wrote: post #11

> they popped up the keyboard and typed “We are in control” This reads like bad hacking fiction, complete with the guy typing that wearing a Guy Fawkes mask. Why the hell would the (hypothetical) attacker lose precious time doing something like that.

Does it even have a keyboard? My Apple Watch 3 does not. Just a scribble pad to draw letters.

Re: Apple Watch Ultra 2 Hacked

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Post by clawoo »

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…

Not necessarily disagreeing with you regarding the people that are imagining things, but with a device so relatively popular as the Apple Watch, this could be very well explained by a software update that messed up the touch screen "driver" and is generating ghost touches. As the update rolled out, it started affecting more and more users who turn to the forums to look for help.

One consequence of these ghost touches would be inputting the wrong PIN which will initially lock the device for one minute, so I don't see what's strange about that.

Which messages, specifically, are you referring to with "exact time & date" and "same timestamp"? I skimmed through them but nothing of sort stood out.

Re: Apple Watch Ultra 2 Hacked

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Post by clawoo »

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 would have said the same thing if it wasn't for the recording in the forums which shows it pretty clearly as "random touches".

Re: Apple Watch Ultra 2 Hacked

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Post by kvakkefly »

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…

My Skype account was hacked many years ago. It started with me getting an email about some credits being added (from my credit card that was in the system).

When I logged onto Skype, I had a new name, and a new contact, both of which were Ivan something. I immediately started chatting with Ivan, who told me that there was a weakness in the Skype login security, which he tried to exploit.

I changed my password to another Medium to Strong password, and a few minutes later my name was again changed to “Anders xoxo Hafreager”, and a message that he had hacked me again.

I still don’t know what he did or how he did it.

Re: Apple Watch Ultra 2 Hacked

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Post by Astraco »

rockbruno wrote: post #42

One of the posters posted a video of the problem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6dazJk9AtU It seems like the ghost touch issue, and not actual hacking.

I thought the same when I saw the video. I had the same problem with an Android phone, but the ghost touch was located in one zone of the screen because it was damaged. This looks like more like a software bug.

Re: Apple Watch Ultra 2 Hacked

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Post by superb_dev »

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 do not believe the comments would read any different if it was an android watch

Re: Apple Watch Ultra 2 Hacked

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Post by Astraco »

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.

If you have access to control the touch interface or to type a message on the screen you already have full control to the device. Look at the video, the input is so random, it's a software bug.
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