She Sent Her iPhone to Apple. Repair Techs Uploaded Her Nudes to Facebook (2021)

Post by bearjaws » Sun, Sep 28, 2025, 5:46 PM UTC

teekert wrote: post #70

bearjaws wrote: post #52

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Was it an Nvidia GPU? I used to work for GeekSquad and we would gladly send the Mac to the Apple store to replace the whole thing with the newer model - always free. People would come back and thank us for sending them to Apple. They even honored them out of warranty due to the lawsuit they faced with Nvidia over the solder failures.

It was indeed an nvidia GPU, I desoldered something and got the thing working pretty much 100% on the iGPU of the corei7 in there... For 3 days until some update bricked it once and for good. I never heard of any actions to take after the second failure, shame. Was that also valid in the EU? Whole thing did leave me a bit sour about Apple tbh, it was my last macbook.

Post by zht » Sun, Sep 28, 2025, 5:56 PM UTC

abtinf wrote: post #25

_fat_santa wrote: post #20

Unfortunately this occurred in 2016, long before they added "repair mode" in iOS 17. But I should mention, I was in the middle of writing a comment along the lines of "apple really needs to add a repair mode to iOS" before going to look it up and realizing that it's actually been there since iOS 17. For me this highlights another issue with iOS which is it has many awesome features that you just won't know about unle…

> iOS which is it has many awesome features that you just won't know about unless you're a techie that keeps up with the news Probably the single most useful hidden feature, valuable to parents everywhere, is “Guided Access” mode available through accessibility settings. It lets you lock the screen to a single app or disable touch entirely (or even by custom region), so that you can hand your device to a kid without…

Post by hu3 » Sun, Sep 28, 2025, 5:58 PM UTC

richardwhiuk wrote: post #42

nenenejej wrote: post #19

Why doesnt apple add a repair mode? Access to most settings but not data? Then train users to never give their password to Apple (like banks say never say even to us your PIN or online password)

They did. 10 years ago.

Post by schoen » Sun, Sep 28, 2025, 6:00 PM UTC

SoftTalker wrote: post #68

lupusreal wrote: post #8

There is a long and shameful history of repair techs and computer shops doing this to people. From the stories I've heard from people who've been in that industry, looking for nudes on customer devices has been almost an expected and tacitly tolerated norm for decades. Its not going to stop on it's own, so we need to start throwing the book at these people. Very long prison sentences are in order. It's a form of sexu…

Been going on long before that. When I was in high school a friend worked at a camera shop where they also did photo finishing in-house. Very common for them to make extra prints of all the nudes and amateur porn and circulate them amongst themselves and their friends. On the one hand, that's a privacy violation. On the other hand, what did people expect when they brought their film in for processing---that nobody wo…

Post by ct0 » Sun, Sep 28, 2025, 6:03 PM UTC