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

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

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Post by lostlogin »

_fat_santa wrote: post #30
dreamcompiler wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> can only be opened with FaceID and no passcode backup So it can easily be opened by someone who restrains you and holds your phone in front of your face then?

I had a friend a few years back that got taken for close to $50k and this feature would have prevented it. - He was at a bar and got to talking to one girl. - There was another girl watching him and his phone and figured out his passcode. The bar was dimly lit so FaceID didn't always work and at some point he entered his passcode and she saw. - They all left to "go back to their place" and in the process the girls st…

> The bar was dimly lit so FaceID didn't always work

I don’t think the dark stops Face ID. It works fine in total darkness.

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

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Post by maleldil »

jen20 wrote: post #38
dreamcompiler wrote: post #23

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> can only be opened with FaceID and no passcode backup So it can easily be opened by someone who restrains you and holds your phone in front of your face then?

Congratulations on discovering XKCD 538 [1]. Depending on your exact threat model (i.e. barring a very surprise attack), this actually can be defended against in many cases, too. [1]: https://xkcd.com/538/ [2]: https://daringfireball.net/2022/06/require_a_passcode_to_unl...

Is there a way to do [2] on Android? I know you can hold the power button and choose Lockdown, but that requires actually looking at the phone, which would be difficult in some situations.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

_fat_santa wrote: post #30
dreamcompiler wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> can only be opened with FaceID and no passcode backup So it can easily be opened by someone who restrains you and holds your phone in front of your face then?

I had a friend a few years back that got taken for close to $50k and this feature would have prevented it. - He was at a bar and got to talking to one girl. - There was another girl watching him and his phone and figured out his passcode. The bar was dimly lit so FaceID didn't always work and at some point he entered his passcode and she saw. - They all left to "go back to their place" and in the process the girls st…

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

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Post by astafrig »

_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…

Repair State isn’t a feature that you need to know about unless you’re having your phone repaired or traded in, at which point you’ll learn about it.

It’s a perfect example of a feature being surfaced exactly as it should be, when needed. Quite a bit of mental gymnastics to twist that into being an ‘issue’.

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

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Post by mschuster91 »

piperswe wrote: post #78
jayd16 wrote: post #29

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Can't you restart into recovery mode and run graphics test?

Stock recovery mode on most devices is as barebones as possible - it _might_ have an option to flash a signed image if you're lucky.

Often not even that. Samsung wants its proprietary Odin stuff to flash, Mediatek has their own toolsuite. Both need Windows to run.

Only ones actually using fully open source tools are Google's Pixel lineup.

But none, not even Pixel, allow for anything resembling actual "recovery" for common failure modes. Dead display at least for Samsung and Pixel means you have to install a new display if you want to access the data, otherwise it won't even pass the first bootloader stage, much less boot into the OS or unlock the encryption. Something gone corrupt with the OS? Same case. If you can't manage to boot at least to the Android Safe Mode, you're out of luck. And no HW self-test at all.

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

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Post by jayd16 »

mschuster91 wrote: post #76
jayd16 wrote: post #29

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Can't you restart into recovery mode and run graphics test?

Recovery mode on stock Android offers nothing other than wipe userdata and partially update firmware, that's the thing.

My stock Galaxy S24 has this option. Its the most popular Android phone of that year, no?

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

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Post by lostlogin »

altairprime wrote: post #22

Date article posted: June 8th, 2021 Date Apple announced self-repair kits program: November 17, 2021 I had been wondering what inspired that program — sure, it’s a good idea, but it’s an odd investment for a corporation. Three months is about their usual turnaround from “okay, this is humiliating” to “okay, we’ve announced our intent to fix”. Thanks, Vice!

> I had been wondering what inspired that program

The EU legislating ‘right to repair’. It has been in the works for a fair while.

https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/04/24/apple-wont-have-t...

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

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Post by hu3 »

Aaargh20318 wrote: post #37
socalgal2 wrote: post #31

A "privacy first" company would never ask for passcodes. They still do in 2025. Just goes to show that Apple's privacy claims are theater.

Every time I had to send in an iDevice for repair they required me to factory-reset it before sending it in. They never asked me for passcodes.

They asked for my wife's iPhone passcode last month. I told her to deny it, ofc.

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

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Post by rpdillon »

morsch wrote: post #60
rpdillon wrote: post #54

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Wasn't it added in the fourth beta of iOS 17.5, which was around April 2024?

Samsung had had it since 2022, Google end of 2023, Apple 2024.

I was super confused because he's all over the thread saying it happened 10 years ago. And I was like, wait a second, did I sleep through that? Thanks for the clarification.
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