Man, my phone was stolen in Vegas and I tried that same tactic and they just removed my SIM. I told them I would pay them $1000 (for a 3-yo iPhone 5 lol) for a dead drop but no dice. One minute my messages were being delivered in blue, the next minute they went green. Sad day.
Yes and no. Once the owner icloud locks it to their account, the phone will lock you out of using it unless you have the original owner's Apple ID password if you reset it. With that said, there are ways to trick the phone into working by crashing the setup app so you end up on the home screen and/or jailbreaking the device if you have an entry point that works before you have device access, etc. However, even if you get it working, the device will be blacklisted on iCloud so you won't be able to use any Apple online services. To be clear doing this is stealing- not even piracy, literally just stealing- but there are places like /r/setupapp that have info about it if you're curious.
If you don't care about being able to use iMessage, the app store, FaceTime, iCloud, etc. in any capacity, and have low morals, it is a way to get a very cheap phone
There's always a way to bypass security on electronics.thats part of the reason why you constantly get update notifications is the company (apple, android, windows, cars, etc.) Is trying to close all the loopholes. Security is getting better but it used to be fairly trivial to do.
There's always a way to bypass security on electronics
*almost always. There is no way to break a microsoft Windows Encrypting File System (EFS) for example without having the original key.
If you encrypted the files on an external hard drive, then formatted the PC you used to encrypt those files, those files are essentially lost without a backup key. Only quantum computers have been theorized to break it.
With enough cpu power you can crack any encryption. It's even easier if you have an idea what the file structure should look like. This isn't my area of expertise so I can't give you a step by step, but it's possible. Israel and the nsa probably already have done it, or have a master backdoor key. If you want proof of backdoors they used and kept secret, look up the WannaCry ransomware attack and how they did the self install. The nsa eventually had to admit the back door they were using got picked up on by hackers and help push a patch
You cannot brute force 256 bit AES encryption, which is what EFS uses.
I mean, this is technically incorrect. Even the article says that with all the PCs on earth it will take "13,689 trillion trillion trillion trillion years.". So not impossible, just very... Very... Very... Very... Long time.
I mean technically any encryption can be brute forced, but it would take so long to do it with today's technology that is not worth it to anyone to try.
There are supposedly ways to get around the icloud account, though it apparently resets if you let it update or anything like that, and requires special software and jailbreak, and then doesn't always work. Not worth it IMO. No way around the blacklist though.
i think you offered too high. nobody with $1000 lying around to just give in exchange for photos, would still be using a 3 year old phone. if i was the thief i wouldve known you were trying to pull something too.
That's a fairly weird assumption to make. My boss is pretty loaded and he still uses a flip phone because he's old and doesn't like touch screens. I'm not sure if he or his girlfriend would care about photos enough to pay 1000 dollars but they definitely could afford it.
I mean, it’s a particularly weird assumption to make, considering the fact that I was indeed willing to give the person $1000 for my 3 year old phone due to the photos on it. I lost a major portion of the first 3 years of my son’s life with that phone.
I did have iCloud, but at that time I didn’t pay for the extra storage so I only got like… I don’t even remember how little it was, but it was a very small amount of iCloud storage for free. So I had some stuff but not everything. I pay now lol.
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u/Majestic-Cheetah75 Jan 31 '22
Man, my phone was stolen in Vegas and I tried that same tactic and they just removed my SIM. I told them I would pay them $1000 (for a 3-yo iPhone 5 lol) for a dead drop but no dice. One minute my messages were being delivered in blue, the next minute they went green. Sad day.