Or you know, a lapse in security
― calstars, Wednesday, 20 September 2017 22:21 (six years ago) link
i'm not a security person, but arq encrypts the data end to end. given enough time and nation state level resources it's probably breakable. but if nation state level resources are required somewhere in the chain of events that leads to your data being stolen then the difficulty of exfiltrating the encrypted data in the first place seems like a pretty minor challenge.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 20 September 2017 23:04 (six years ago) link
thanks!
― Dan I., Thursday, 21 September 2017 03:00 (six years ago) link
My iCloud got hacked last night! At least I think that's what happened. I woke up and my phone had been locked from a foreign country. I was able to unlock it and reset my iCloud password. My MacBook Pro had been working for a little bit but then it defaulted to a grey screen asking for a pin with a sketchy email that it says to contact. I tried to reboot into recovery mode but it now has a firmware password set. Waiting until 8 so I can call Apple but maybe someone here has some idea of how to get rid of this?
― Mordy, Friday, 22 September 2017 11:44 (six years ago) link
Holy crap dude
― harbinger of failure (Jon not Jon), Friday, 22 September 2017 13:50 (six years ago) link
that's crazy
is your phone still working?
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 22 September 2017 14:09 (six years ago) link
It's a thing right now, sadly https://www.macrumors.com/2017/09/20/hackers-find-my-iphone-remote-mac-lock/
― stet, Friday, 22 September 2017 19:51 (six years ago) link
I've got a genius appt for tmmrw to get it all sorted out (hopefully). What they should do is let you unlock it from iCloud.
― Mordy, Friday, 22 September 2017 21:07 (six years ago) link
mordy i absolutely don't mean to rub anything in, just want to check: do you use two factor authentication?
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 22 September 2017 21:12 (six years ago) link
I wonder how many people are bitching about their secret porn stash app's camouflage being ruined by the new look of the Calculator app
― El Tomboto, Friday, 22 September 2017 21:13 (six years ago) link
xpost it sounds like 2 factor does nothing to prevent this though?
― harbinger of failure (Jon not Jon), Friday, 22 September 2017 21:22 (six years ago) link
Yup, you're not asked to 2fa to remote lock a device on your apple account.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 22 September 2017 21:24 (six years ago) link
I do use it but it didn't help :(
― Mordy, Friday, 22 September 2017 21:26 (six years ago) link
Solution: don't use iCloud?
― calstars, Friday, 22 September 2017 21:53 (six years ago) link
oh shit, that's really bad, sorry for useless post
― calstars, Saturday, 23 September 2017 07:53 (thirty-six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
tricky, since a load of stock apps rely on icloud if you have 2+ apple devices and want to sync notes &c.
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 22 September 2017 22:36 (six years ago) link
i mean you can most likely do it if you rely on third party apps for everything that matters to you.
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 22 September 2017 22:37 (six years ago) link
This sounds scary. So the macrumors article is saying it only affects people who've used their iCloud password elsewhere, right?
― Alba, Saturday, 23 September 2017 14:32 (six years ago) link
Also this from lifehacker:
We continued testing “Find My Device.” We found that “Find My iPhone” couldn’t lock an iPhone that already had passcode protection. But it could enable a new passcode on a phone that previously had none.
I'm curious if this was Mordy's situation.
― calstars, Saturday, 23 September 2017 15:54 (six years ago) link
My phone already had a passcode which is likely why they were unable to lock it
― Mordy, Saturday, 23 September 2017 16:30 (six years ago) link
1. Never not have a passcode 2. Never don't use 2FA3. Never re-use your Apple ID password
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 23 September 2017 16:41 (six years ago) link
Also sorry Mordy that sucks
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 23 September 2017 16:51 (six years ago) link
not smug about this at all, and i can't imagine how i'd be freaking right now if this happened to me, but i never turned on "find my iphone" precisely because it seemed like an attack vector, to use the phrasey-ology, that would some day some way be exploited
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 23 September 2017 16:53 (six years ago) link
I dunno, I've lost iPhones and iPads & iPod touches to thefts & burglaries (ugh) and I was happy to be able to lock them remotely. You can put a message on the lost device so we put our phone number & a few months later with the iPads I got a text from Tunisia from someone who wanted me to send them the passcode for the device because they couldn't unlock it. L O L was our reply obv but I'm glad that no one else could use the devices.
― droit au butt (Euler), Saturday, 23 September 2017 16:57 (six years ago) link
I’m curious about how most people with a single email address handle apple’s policy of not letting the recovery email be the same as their appleid email
I woke up from a nap the other evening and had a half dozen recovery codes.... for my mom. When we set up her account I used my address because it was convenient, and that was how I discovered she has a new iPad!
I think it’s fine, I could probably have it sent to my dad’s email, but it was funny
― mh, Saturday, 23 September 2017 19:39 (six years ago) link
I've turned Find My Mac off for the moment.
― Alba, Saturday, 23 September 2017 20:20 (six years ago) link
You should be fine from this attack so long as both your Apple ID and recovery email account passwords are unique and secure. But eugh, it's time to leave passwords behind.
― stet, Saturday, 23 September 2017 20:41 (six years ago) link
Any word about how long they take to fix this? Is it a fifteen minute kind of thing or am I going without my laptop for a day or two?
― Mordy, Saturday, 23 September 2017 20:46 (six years ago) link
I think you'd have to go with whatever support says? I don't think anyone's reported back yet, but this is something where only they're going to know and afaik each person affected will have to call support, unless all of the requests came from one malicious person
― mh, Saturday, 23 September 2017 22:00 (six years ago) link
lol https://robservatory.com/apple-says-dont-use-time-machine-if-you-take-lots-of-photos/
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 29 September 2017 00:34 (six years ago) link
Every review of the iPhone 8 is like , "it's a great phone, but who's it for?" What hogwash.
― calstars, Friday, 29 September 2017 00:58 (six years ago) link
The sentiment is hogwash, or the phone is?
― Nhex, Friday, 29 September 2017 01:29 (six years ago) link
It’s a reasonable incremental update and the majority of people treat phones as a commodity. Most will maybe get a new one when their carrier contract expires, and it’s a matter of having a thing you can do all the normal phone crap on, with a camera that’s better, maybe some tweaks
― mh, Friday, 29 September 2017 01:53 (six years ago) link
have had to hard reset my SE like 4 times since updating to 11.0.1, what, less than 48 hours ago
― Clay, Friday, 29 September 2017 04:43 (six years ago) link
i left my iphone 6 in aeroplane mode overnight and it lost 15% battery. this release is a mess.
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 29 September 2017 21:58 (six years ago) link
I HATE APPLE
― calstars, Friday, 29 September 2017 23:12 (six years ago) link
aeroplane mode
I don't know why I find this funny
― El Tomboto, Friday, 29 September 2017 23:15 (six years ago) link
My battery’s draining faster than a velocipede!!!
― harbinger of failure (Jon not Jon), Friday, 29 September 2017 23:19 (six years ago) link
Yah same
― Spottie, Saturday, 30 September 2017 00:37 (six years ago) link
as incredibly good as this new apple watch is, siri still needs work. on the whole it’s the best it’s ever been by some distance, but the snarky responses get in the way of accessibility, e.g. when you ask what the time is (because sight impaired people would rely on questions like this) and it says “same time as it was yesterday hur dur”, and displays the time but doesn’t announce it. can’t believe they haven’t sorted this out.
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 30 September 2017 00:59 (six years ago) link
I've been ruined by Star Trek most assuredly, but the "processing" time for Siri always feels too slow to me
― Nhex, Saturday, 30 September 2017 03:13 (six years ago) link
google’s much quicker so yeah
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 30 September 2017 03:42 (six years ago) link
"play my favourites"
"here's what I found about 'your favorites' on the internet"
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 30 September 2017 08:45 (six years ago) link
"Call goomah""Call mom?"
― calstars, Saturday, 30 September 2017 11:26 (six years ago) link
watch out if you're managing external disks you might ever need to read from a non-high sierra mac https://mjtsai.com/blog/2017/09/29/unwanted-conversions-to-apfs/
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 30 September 2017 18:51 (six years ago) link
Updated to 11.0.1, and battery life on my iPhone 7 Plus is improved...But just had the first complete frozen screen ever, and had to hard reset.
― Luna Schlosser, Saturday, 30 September 2017 22:12 (six years ago) link
11.0.2 and my battery life is still a fucking disgrace
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 4 October 2017 10:37 (six years ago) link
the question I have about the iPhone X is, does it make phone calls?
― calstars, Wednesday, 4 October 2017 11:28 (six years ago) link
yes but only to high net-worth individuals
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 4 October 2017 11:30 (six years ago) link
really not looking forward to a year of "actually it's pronounced iphone ten"
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 4 October 2017 11:31 (six years ago) link
i have an iphone 6, my battery life has been poor for ages, doesn't seem any worse with this update, maybe I got lucky
― akm, Wednesday, 4 October 2017 12:44 (six years ago) link