Well Musclenerd gave up and stopped trying, let's not forget that Gevey became the standard, although it's not software and a hassle to operate at times but it did offer an unlock solution. For something as significant as bypassing Activation Lock i'm sure plenty of coders and skilled organized criminals that buy stolen iDevices in bulk will jump on board for a bypass fix. It'll be a huge blow for Apple if such thing happens specially if it's hardware oriented that tricks the phone while booting. Anyway time will tell!
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Government Officials Bring in Security Experts to Test iOS 7's Activation Lock Feature
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Well Musclenerd gave up and stopped trying, let's not forget that Gevey became the standard, although it's not software and a hassle to operate at times but it did offer an unlock solution. For something as significant as bypassing Activation Lock i'm sure plenty of coders and skilled organized criminals that buy stolen iDevices in bulk will jump on board for a bypass fix. It'll be a huge blow for Apple if such thing happens specially if it's hardware oriented that tricks the phone while booting. Anyway time will tell!
Be prepared!!!!!
We can expect people posting youtube videos-
how to destroy an iphone in different ways! People will start making money through social audience by destroying them or showing some sort of collection.lol!:d
We can expect people posting youtube videos-
how to destroy an iphone in different ways! People will start making money through social audience by destroying them or showing some sort of collection.lol!:d
As far as I know, gevey only works if you preserve some old baseband (modem firmware). In other words, Apple have been successfully patching up the security holes with software update. Sure, I understand never say never. But Apple only needs to make it hard enough that they'll steal something else instead.
Not to continue straying way off-topic, but oh well. Here goes nothing.
Yes there is. If you spring for AppleCare+ ($99 for 2 years.)
Learn more - http://www.apple.com/support/products/iphone.html
Yes there is. If you spring for AppleCare+ ($99 for 2 years.)
Learn more - http://www.apple.com/support/products/iphone.html
In that scenario, you simply turn on the "find my iPhone" feature on your iCloud page and find out it's somewhere in your car. It's quite simple, really.
I'm sure that this discussion has been thrown around a lot on here, and I've contributed to a few, but nothing is ever totally secure. If they want it, they'll get it, either by remote access, transmission snooping, or at worst, physical removal of said device.
Now that's not to say it's practically impenetrable in day to day use for the average law abiding persons. That's quite a tenable statement.
The biggest flaw with encryption usually isn't the decryption of raw data but failures in passwords, thus allowing access to the decryption key. Encryption across devices always requires two complicit devices on either end -- one of which can be compromised. That still speaks nothing of your ISP -- they know what you sent out and to where. Your packets may be encrypted, preventing immediate sniffing, but at some point in the outbound cycle they have to be decrypted and sent around plain as day. That could be on the end node of your proxy and/or VPN, or on some third party service that comprises the remote terminal or service.
Now, if you were store files on your computer or device that were encrypted, and never discussed or transmitted (upload or download) them online? Then yes, it would be possible to effectively keep them hidden, from a practical point of view, unless you became a person of interest.
Now, how does this translate into iPhone locking? There will always be holes and flaws when money is to be made. Expect a constant cat and mouse battle over security, like most everything else electronic.
No... that's the point of it
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You would for no researching how find your iPhone works.
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I'm testing iOS 7 on my iPhone. I successfully bypassed the activation lock by putting my phone into DFU mode. This was done on beta 2. I have not tried it on beta 3 yet.
That's because you did it wrong. Try again. Make sure find my iPhone AND activation lock are activated before wiping/resetting.
AppleCare+ is an (extended) warranty. If you have that, then it is under warranty.
In any event, I think officially you can't do 'paid replacements', but In the past I've heard of it happening. I recall from memory reading not too long ago that is a practice they were trying to stamp out.
So if LoJack doesn't work, do they get the blame or do they go after Samsung or Google? It is so much easier just to go after Apple instead of the Android community of phones.
Results of the testing won't be released until Friday:
The group was expected to release the results of their efforts late Thursday, but a spokesperson for the District Attorney's Office indicated late Thursday results would not be released until Friday.
Updated at 6 p.m. PT with a spokesperson telling CNET that the results will not be released until Friday.
The group was expected to release the results of their efforts late Thursday, but a spokesperson for the District Attorney's Office indicated late Thursday results would not be released until Friday.
Updated at 6 p.m. PT with a spokesperson telling CNET that the results will not be released until Friday.
It doesn't. I gave my phone to a friend who went abroad (network unlocked) so I had to downgrade it to iOS 6 using DFU restore before I would give it to him. When activating it, it was asking first to enter email and pasword of the owner who had previsously activated the phone. I was a bit suprised because I thought this would be the case only if the phone was on a lost mode. It is really good.
Well, that's pretty simple. Instead of calling forums, genius bars etc... why don't you call the person who sold/gifted you the phone and ask him/her to activate it?? The message on the phone when you activate it, from what i saw on my test is pretty clear and easy to understand.
Clear? Easy to understand? Maybe to someone who knows about the activation lock feature. To someone who doesn't know, that message is cryptic and hard to understand.
"Sign in with the Apple ID that was used to set up this iPhone."
"But what? I haven't setup this iPhone yet! What Apple ID?"
And there is no guarantee that the current owner can recognize that the truncated email address that shows up belongs to the previous owner. Many people have multiple emails, so the email that is used for Apple ID is not necessarily the same as the one used for corresponding with other people.
There's already been cases of people posting in the iOS 7 subforum asking for help with getting past the activation lock. Believe me, once iOS 7 goes into general release, there will be a flood of threads asking for help.
This is either a really smart move by Apple/late to the game, or a totally dumb move....
Governments know nothing about security, Its the reason why they keep infecting themselves constantly,
I pose a suggestion, give it to the NSA... Thats a true test.
Governments know nothing about security, Its the reason why they keep infecting themselves constantly,
I pose a suggestion, give it to the NSA... Thats a true test.
i love this feature, being a victim of phone theft where find my iphone did nothing.. i am hopeful this will help people in the future.. and possibly decrease crime..
also, passcode your phones people! you're data is precious as well.
