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iPhone hacked

Mercury7 said:
no, just a personal phone.... until now I did not know restrictions could be accessed remotely either... but it has to be true... although I can certainly understand being skeptical... thats the main reason I posted this... just bizarre
[doublepost=1463864079][/doublepost]If anyone hears anything else like this in the next few days please come back and post here, thanks
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It can't be done remotely (at least not without some sort of management profile or something similar).
 
960design said:
I'm a mobile learning analyst and my job is to do just what the OP has mentioned. I have not found a way to remotely add a passcode to restrictions, everything else can be done with a link in an email or website being clicked on the device and saying yes a couple of times.
I want to believe the OP because I certainly do not know everything, but the passcode on restrictions, pretty much want to call BS. I can remotely lock restrictions, where everything is greyed out and you will no longer have access. But I have to have physical access to the device to implement a restrictions passcode.

PM me mercury7, I would love to check your device out.
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So you can restrict the device without a profile? I say not possible.
 
960design said:
I'm a mobile learning analyst and my job is to do just what the OP has mentioned. I have not found a way to remotely add a passcode to restrictions, everything else can be done with a link in an email or website being clicked on the device and saying yes a couple of times.
I want to believe the OP because I certainly do not know everything, but the passcode on restrictions, pretty much want to call BS. I can remotely lock restrictions, where everything is greyed out and you will no longer have access. But I have to have physical access to the device to implement a restrictions passcode.

PM me mercury7, I would love to check your device out.
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if you had previously set a passcode 960, could you enable it remotely? doesn't it just ask you to reenter it when you turn restrictions on? I ask because last year I did play with it to see how it worked when my daughter started driving, so a passcode was most likely saved in there
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Mercury7 said:
if you had previously set a passcode 960, could you enable it remotely? doesn't it just ask you to reenter it when you turn restrictions on? I ask because last year I did play with it to see how it worked when my daughter started driving, so a passcode was most likely saved in there
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but btw just those three were greyed out... iMessage, FaceTime and iCloud,
 
Mercury7 said:
if you had previously set a passcode 960, could you enable it remotely? doesn't it just ask you to reenter it when you turn restrictions on? I ask because last year I did play with it to see how it worked when my daughter started driving, so a passcode was most likely saved in there
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but btw just those three were greyed out... iMessage, FaceTime and iCloud,
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Yes, if there was a previous passcode set, then locking it remotely would still lock you out of everything. Even if you entered the proper restrictions passcode, I can still restrict you from pretty much everything. I can lock iMessage, Facetime and iCloud, exactly as you mentioned.

If your device was DEP and stolen and your purchased it second hand, resetting it would pull in the full MDM restrictions without your knowledge, just as the device 'activates' the MDM profiles would be installed. The original owner could at a later time, lock everything down.

Be warned that if someone did install an MDM profile (which is what it is more and more sounding like) they can force all of your traffic through a proxy and use other tools to capture passwords from everything you visited, banks, credit card, amazon, ect.
 
960design said:
I'm a mobile learning analyst and my job is to do just what the OP has mentioned. I have not found a way to remotely add a passcode to restrictions, everything else can be done with a link in an email or website being clicked on the device and saying yes a couple of times.
I want to believe the OP because I certainly do not know everything, but the passcode on restrictions, pretty much want to call BS. I can remotely lock restrictions, where everything is greyed out and you will no longer have access. But I have to have physical access to the device to implement a restrictions passcode.

PM me mercury7, I would love to check your device out.
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[doublepost=1463869984][/doublepost]I did find this old ios7 bug.... wonder if its possible 9.3.2 did this... I did update this morning https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/restrictions-passcode-auto-locks-in-ios7.1662399/
 
I7guy said:
So you can restrict the device without a profile? I say not possible.
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You might have missed this part:
...everything else can be done with a link in an email or website being clicked on the device and saying yes a couple of times.
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That would be the profile install part.

I can also do it to a DEP device without the link, but that requires a restore on the user part to enable it. Plus the user will know the device is DEP unless they purchased it second hand from a thief that stole from the wrong person. The DEP device would be tracked the moment it was connected to the internet or cell tower.
 
If a profile is installed, wouldn't the user be able to see that somewhere in Settings? How would a user know if a profile has been installed?
 
ardchoille50 said:
If a profile is installed, wouldn't the user be able to see that somewhere in Settings? How would a user know if a profile has been installed?
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Settings > General ( left column )
Scroll down to the bottom of the right column, just above Regulatory and below VPN is where Profile information is listed on 9.3.2
 
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960design said:
Settings > General ( left column )
Scroll down to the bottom of the right column, just above Regulatory and below VPN is where Profile information is listed on 9.3.2
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Good to know, thank you.

I'm wondering if the OP has any profiles installed.
 
I7guy said:
Yep, op says it was in physical possession at all times.
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That's the part I'm doubtful of in this entire ordeal. OP seems genuine (as genuine as an anon Internet forum poster can be I suppose), but I've just never heard of these settings being changed without a profile being installed and/or physical access.
 
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