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Apple Watch Ultra 2 Hacked
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#154I 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.
From experience, you really can't just take user reports at face value. There's almost always something there, but it may or may not be what the user thinks it is.
So it's a good idea to apply Occam's razor.
Digitizer/ghost touch is probably the simplest explanation.
The only thing the hacked/pwned idea has going for it is the "We are in control" message, which is still a bit marginal if the watch really was hacked. (None of the other posts mention this and why would a hacker type that message in? Could be because it's a practical joke or maybe part of a phishing attack, but those are tenuous and nothing else mentioned supports those.)
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#155I 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 anot…
MS didn't invalidate the token he had when you changed the password?
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#156My clever idea to explain this is:
It's a factory test script is getting triggered on the watch somehow.
It would normally be run near the end of the manufacturing process to ensure everything is working as expected. It automatically runs through a series of steps hitting a wide swath of watch functionality and would look a lot like someone rifling through a watch remotely. But a persons watch wouldn't have test data or factory password, so the script soon ends up getting the watch locked (or maybe that's just part of the test).
It could even conceivably type the message "We are in control" (though I have my doubts about that part of the story), because, as those of us who know some hardware verification folks, that's right where their sense of humor is.
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#157This 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?
Maybe to make this scenario seem plausible?
> From: definitelyNotAppleScam.com
> Subject: Your Apple Watch is hacked
> Hello [insert name here],
> We have found that your Apple Watch Series x has been compromised by hackers.
> Please click on the link below to reset your password
> [Link that asks for previous password and something idk]
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#158Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
I own an iPhone and i would be a level 1 / new user if i had issues. Otherwise, why on earth would i care about signing up to apple forums? I’d only go there if i had issues (obviously)
Personal experience from browsing n = n + 1 apple support threads:
Just message support. It’s much faster and has a higher chance of producing a result.
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#159Earlier 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
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.
Truth!
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#160I 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…
Don’t forget: it’s never the victim’s fault, no matter how careless they are.