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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 jeroenhd »

herbst wrote: post #77
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?

The apple forum really is a special place. Stuck in time, weirdly toxic and surprisingly unhelpful.

I've only had to browse it for information a few times, but it really is shockingly useless. I've never found an actual answer on those forums.

Even Google's practically useless forums have helpful users who suggest workarounds between the hundreds of "I have the same problem" comments. Microsofd's near-useless forums have some good information if the thread doesn't die once a Certified Super Microsoft Systems Engineer tells you to reinstall Windows (because that seems to be all they can come up with). But for some reason, Apple's forums are somehow worse. Maybe it's because of Apple targeting a more tech-averse audience, I don't know, but when it comes to Apple's forums, nobody has any real answers.

Re: Apple Watch Ultra 2 Hacked

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Post by eveningsteps »

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.

I have upvoted this, but on a second thought, this is probably what I would do as well if I had the possibility to observe the victim, yet all the chances to have not been caught. Makes for an exhilarating complaint and report as well (evidence: this thread).

Re: Apple Watch Ultra 2 Hacked

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Post by veunes »

Apple has a strong security track record, and its devices are generally considered to be more secure than other brands. However, no device is completely immune to hacking... This is the first time i've heard about Apple Watch hack

Re: Apple Watch Ultra 2 Hacked

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Post by veunes »

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.

This is a very frustrating issue, as it can make it difficult to use the watch...

Re: Apple Watch Ultra 2 Hacked

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Post by MissTake »

This has nothing to do with hacking and everything to do with the ghost touch issues that apparently affect multiple Series 9 and Ultra 2 users (although I’ve not seen it on my series 9 myself).

Way back in the early days of Android (pre Ice Cream Sandwich), I spoke to one co-worker who told me that when they looked at their Google Map app while driving it would show their actual physical car (and all the other surrounding vehicles etc.) on the satellite view - in motion - in real time.

No manner of attempts by me to state why this was impossible would dissuade them and they went away thinking I was the technical idiot as a result.

So “we are in control”?

Yeah, no.

This is what happens when folk think that shows like NCIS and their ilk are factual based docudramas.

Obligatory link: https://m.youtube.com/watch?t=14&v=u8qgehH3kEQ&feature=youtu...

Re: Apple Watch Ultra 2 Hacked

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Post by dcow »

caskstrength wrote: post #58
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…

A little bit of a gap in understanding too. Something happened to your account and you don’t know how? Hacked.

Turns out for a lot of people your piss drunk self, your weird ex boyfriend, and that person setting up fake OF with a selection of your public fb/insta pictures, are all threat actors too.

Re: Apple Watch Ultra 2 Hacked

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Post by threeseed »

infinitedata wrote: post #96
sebazzz wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Can you be more specific about when an Apple employee remotely accessed your iPhone.

It would almost certainly would be illegal.

Re: Apple Watch Ultra 2 Hacked

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Post by madsbuch »

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 will stay with my Garmin watch just until touchscreens become good enough to user under water.
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