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Re: Apple Watch Ultra 2 Hacked

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Post by Toutouxc »

scarface_74 wrote: post #35
NavinF wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was with you until "Likely submerged it in water and it was all over". Flagship phones and watches have been waterproof for many years now. I use my iphone and my apple watch in both the pool and the shower regularly with no issues

My Apple Watch 3 was suppose to be safe to swim in. But it did mess up after going swimming in it a few times. Admittedly, this was last year and the watch was already 4 years old.

I think you just got unlucky. It's a mixed bag with "waterproof" phones, but [flagship] smartwatches should be pretty solid. My GF and I both had Galaxy Active watches, now we have Apple watches, we go swimming and kayaking with them, zero issues.

Re: Apple Watch Ultra 2 Hacked

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Post by vdaea »

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…

You just have to see how the media says 23andme was "hacked" when actually accounts were compromised using a password spraying attack.

Re: Apple Watch Ultra 2 Hacked

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Post by throwbadubadu »

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…

Not sure if catalyst, but if the crowd learns something it is corpos and governments telling almost always the same story of getting hacked, cyberattacked, with the worst of criminal energy, even if its the most simple letting unpatched (more 1000days then 0days) software run or pretty much unsecured systems out open in the wild.. it is the common excuse everywhere for not understanding of an admitted for most too complex tech world.

Re: Apple Watch Ultra 2 Hacked

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Post by BSDobelix »

infinitedata wrote: post #98
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

whoops, i should not read that much Science fiction ;)

PS: but a little correction not 2,250 but 250 years or 0.250 millennia.

Re: Apple Watch Ultra 2 Hacked

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Post by layer8 »

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.

See meaning 1.5 vs. 1.6: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hacker#Noun

Hacker News is meaning 1.6.

Re: Apple Watch Ultra 2 Hacked

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Post by somenameforme »

progbits wrote: post #64
caskstrength wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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…

Same thing how all company breaches are attributed to "sophisticated state sponsored actors" even though most of the time the company provides zero evidence it wasn't a single bored hacker in their moms basement.

solarwinds123

https://www.theregister.com/2020/12/16/solarwinds_github_pas...

Re: Apple Watch Ultra 2 Hacked

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Post by dmd »

NavinF wrote: post #26
rvz wrote: post #14

TLDR: Their watch digitizer got messed up. Likely submerged it in water and it was all over. Case closed.

I was with you until "Likely submerged it in water and it was all over". Flagship phones and watches have been waterproof for many years now. I use my iphone and my apple watch in both the pool and the shower regularly with no issues

Ah, but what you're failing to take into account is that there are magnets in the Apple Watch. And as we all know, you drop some water on the magnets, that's the end of the magnets.

Re: Apple Watch Ultra 2 Hacked

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Post by caleb-allen »

codemusings wrote: post #133
planb wrote: post #128

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

It wasn't obvious at all to me that that's even possible. But as it turns out: it's an accessibility feature (1) to mirror the watch screen on iPhone in order to voice control it or use assistive touch. 1: https://support.apple.com/guide/watch/apple-watch-mirroring-...

Surely this is a vector for attack then?

Re: Apple Watch Ultra 2 Hacked

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Post by caleb-allen »

rpy wrote: post #74
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 were genuinely remotely hacking a smartwatch, you’d be executing background processes to exfiltrate data entirely invisible to the user, not doing some bizarre remote desktop thing randomly tapping around on apps. The claim doesn’t pass the sniff test irrespective of the manufacturer.

Unless the attack vector is the "screen mirroring" feature of the Apple Watch? https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/watch/apd890848603/wat...
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