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Apple Watch Ultra 2 Hacked

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Re: Apple Watch Ultra 2 Hacked

#121

> 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.

If I long press on an input field on my apple watch s9 a keyboard pops up on my iphone.

Re: Apple Watch Ultra 2 Hacked

#122

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.

Ah yes, many fond memories of my dog dumfyg-gycpid-8Vujmi

Re: Apple Watch Ultra 2 Hacked

#123

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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.

Ah yes, many fond memories of my dog dumfyg-gycpid-8Vujmi

Good ol dumfyg. I've bad a hard time pronouncing their name to service reps over the phone when locked out of an account.

Re: Apple Watch Ultra 2 Hacked

#124
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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.

This seems even more hard to believe and requires even more extraordinary evidence.

Re: Apple Watch Ultra 2 Hacked

#125
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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.

That's not true. Apple employees can see a video feed of your screen after you accept their support request (similar to screen sharing over FaceTime), but they can't interact with your phone remotely.

Re: Apple Watch Ultra 2 Hacked

#128

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.

Obviously this guy was fooled by a friend who was using his iPhone to remotely operate the watch (which explains the „we are in control“ phrase). Now in this forum numerous people that simply have a broken digitizer chime in. Case closed.

Re: Apple Watch Ultra 2 Hacked

#129

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Ah yes, many fond memories of my dog dumfyg-gycpid-8Vujmi

Good ol dumfyg. I've bad a hard time pronouncing their name to service reps over the phone when locked out of an account.

In the future, people will name themselves XÆA-12 so even their login can’t be guessed.

Re: Apple Watch Ultra 2 Hacked

#130

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Ah yes, many fond memories of my dog dumfyg-gycpid-8Vujmi

Good ol dumfyg. I've bad a hard time pronouncing their name to service reps over the phone when locked out of an account.

You could just say "it's some gibberish" to restore the account.
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