As usual, people are the weakest link in security.
Comment on Nearly two-fifths of robberies in London last year were for mobile phones
520@kbin.social 10 months agoThe usual tactic is to send a phishing text to a number that calls it pretending to be Apple. They then get your Apple ID credentials and use that to unlock the device.
blake@kbin.social 10 months ago
520@kbin.social 10 months ago
Exactly. The protections on the iPhone themselves are actually very strong for the time the phone released in. Unless you've got NSA-level hardware hackers in your org, this is by far your best bet.
smeg@feddit.uk 10 months ago
Very much depends on your threat model. An iPhone is great if you trust Apple with the backdoor to your phone, if not then you’re probably much more secure with GrapheneOS.
520@kbin.social 10 months ago
I mean yeah, obviously Apple isn't going to be able protect you much against a state-sponsored threat with their own private list of zero days, or Apple itself, but right now that's a small amount of people either are truly interested in fucking over.
frazorth@feddit.uk 10 months ago
How do you send a phishing text to a phone you have stolen? The owner would either not get the text, or get it via iMessage which the response wouldn’t appear on the stolen phone. I’m not following this tactic, so I’m obviously missing something.
520@kbin.social 10 months ago
The owner tries to call the number from another phone, usually a mobile.
frazorth@feddit.uk 10 months ago
So the owner calls the phone, which is answered by the thief who pretends to be Apple?
Interesting.
520@kbin.social 10 months ago
They don't necessarily have to answer. They can just note the number that appears on-screen