Apple and Other Smartphone Makers Back Global Anti-Theft Measures

[godofredog]

Did you enable the screen lock as well? If so, it's simply not being used at all possibly.

Clean install requires a password if FMM is enabled, no?

Yeap, iClod is waiting for it to connect to the internet to lock it out. That's what I am hoping for... but I did not have a guest account, so to be able to connect it they have two options: hack my password (unlikely) or do a clean (offline) OS install

If they do a clean OS install without connecting to the internet (feasible), and after that, before connecting, they turn off FMM, it's done... they can then connect to the internet and iCloud will never know that Mac is mine.

After that and as long as they keep FMM off, they are good to go.

Hey Gurus: PLEASE correct me if I'm wrong!

 

[Born Again]

If you're never happy with the here and now - what you have got and not what you long for (usually irrelevant raw specs, based upon what Android vendors have put on a spec sheet), then EVERYTHING appears "sub-par". What is actually sub-par, is having the mindset that is to fixate on what isn't (and what possibly won't even EVER be), and become someone who is never satisfied, no matter what. People get carried away, comparing what Apple does to the RAW SPECS of what everyone else has; yes, they may have those specs, but they don't have (and never will have):

# iOS, and the whole Apple experience, not JUST raw specs and cores

# Apple's stellar support

# World class hardware design

# Unbeatable retention of value

Tell my Mum who has an iPhone 3GS that it's "sub-par" - she'd laugh at you and smile.

Tell her thanks for a good time last night

Dinner was wonderful

 

[Digital Skunk]

Tell her thanks for a good time last night

Dinner was wonderful

You TOO? I thought I was the only one!

Seriously though I love the anecdotal evidence people keep throwing against the wall.

 

[Born Again]

You TOO? I thought I was the only one!

Seriously though I love the anecdotal evidence people keep throwing against the wall.

I was just being fictitious about the home button

 

[Digital Skunk]

I was just being fictitious about the home button

I know, the second part of my comment wasn't meant for you. Sorry about that.

 

[B2k1977]

my whole family doesnt use iCloud and Location Services because they dont want to be tracked by "that internet" ... same people who have passcode disabled and i just roll my eyes

anyway, good luck with that in Spain the police couldnt care less especially if you are a tourist. twice already i had to run after a thief to get my iPhone back from a guy who had like 6 stolen iPhones in his bag asking me which one was mine. you could say those thieves are at least polite here lol

Wow. Just wow.

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Custom ROM, bro. No matter what security they implement, flashing a custom ROM will make any software based security moot. The handset makers will have to have something inaccessible (by users and hackers) like the PROM to make it work.

I, for one, won't have a problem with someone trying to steal my phone, since it's not a desirable phone. 5 years ago, my Galaxy S would have been hot stuff, but now people snigger when I pull it out. Well it's an upgrade from my StarTAC that I used for 10+ years.

StarTAC....I remember wanting that phone so bad. But I was young, that phone was very expensive and I was poor

 

[bushido]

If you find a phone, hand it in to the police.

and what r they supposed to do with that if they cannot get access to it either plus the police isnt as helpful as you may think in many cases. there r so many stupid tourists getting robbed over here that they started to process complains over the internet because the queue at the police station is too long or they just shake their heads at those "silly" tourists falling for the latest trick

 

[Yumbo]

Police

and what r they supposed to do with that if they cannot get access to it either plus the police isnt as helpful as you may think in many cases. there r so many stupid tourists getting robbed over here that they started to process complains over the internet because the queue at the police station is too long or they just shake their heads at those "silly" tourists falling for the latest trick

then contact Apple, and then Apple assist Police to have device returned to owner.