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Apple Watch Ultra 2 Hacked
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#172Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Their support raises issues directly to the dev teams when they happen often enough, too. There's a good chance the touch screen team is working their asses off right now on this already
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#173> 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.
You don’t do it all in a guy fawkes mask?
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#174Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
No. You need to gain access to the phone. If you have access to the phone, the watch isn’t interesting anymore.
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#175Earlier 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…
That fraction is about 4%: https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/04/12/noisy-poll-results-and...
You get different percentages depending on what you’re counting.
I regularly choose one of the first countries in those forms that collect your info so they can spam you. There’s some marketing person out there who is convinced Albania and Afghanistan are a cloud computing Mecca.
That doesn’t make me “crazy”.
Similarly, over 5% of students are on ADHD medication but they’re not what I would consider nuts.
What I mean is that there are people that would be homeless vagrants shouting about space worms burrowing into everyone’s brains, but they’re on medication and got a government job where from they’re nearly unfireable even if they stop taking their pills one day.
Two of my friends are conspiracy theorists… in private. It’s basically a fan-fiction club to them, a setting in which to make up stories.
I’ve met an IT guy who truly believed that software updates were a conspiracy and made sure that every system in that place used the “clean” golden image from the original CD and was never ever patched.
There are statics like “20% of all adults have some mental health issue” and then there is the guy who literally spends his day planning your murder because you didn’t talk to him at the water cooler.
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#176TLDR: 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
I was swimming with my Apple watch in Hawaii, after a couple of days of swimming the side button sank into the case and got stuck. Now the fun began, long press on that button is an automatic call to 911. I had several calls happened and had to explain to a 911 operator why I'm calling but eventually I was able to turn off (shut down) the watch completely.
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#177I 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.
iOS developers who have done work for watchOS know that, during development, you are barely able to connect an Apple Watch to Xcode. It is flaky as hell. So thinking that someone can remotely control an Apple Watch is a bit hard to believe.
Ghost touches and typing "we are in control" with predictive text, sounds more plausible but still raises an eyebrow.
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#178This is likely related? https://www.macrumors.com/2024/02/10/apple-watch-series-9-ul...
Edit: A hardware issue that appears like a remote take over?
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#179Earlier 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…
Don’t forget: it’s never the victim’s fault, no matter how careless they are.
The customer is always right... unless they are not.
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#180Earlier 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.
Or more often than not, a disgruntled current or past employee.