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

Post by dpark » Sun, Sep 28, 2025, 10:49 PM UTC

squigz wrote: post #99

_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…

You can't overwhelm the user with 300 "Here's what you can do with your phone!" tips when they first start it, so maybe something like a push notification every few days telling the user about a couple features.

Post by lupusreal » Mon, Sep 29, 2025, 12:26 AM UTC

Noumenon72 wrote: post #44

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…

I think we should continue with the consequentialist approach where the trust violation and right to privacy are considered creepy but not punished as strictly as sexual abuse that actually harms someone or traumatizes them. "Uploads the nudes to Facebook" is not a bad place to draw the line. I spend a lot of time watching TikToks of people in prison and it is a terrible punishment where a few weeks outweighs any har…

Post by helsinki8 » Mon, Sep 29, 2025, 1:48 AM UTC

_fat_santa wrote: post #30

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?

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…

Post by man8alexd » Mon, Sep 29, 2025, 1:18 PM UTC

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…

Post by mokkun » Wed, Oct 01, 2025, 1:35 PM UTC

zht wrote: post #73

abtinf wrote: post #25

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> 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…

Keep in mind it doesn’t always work and never works in YouTube full screen mode