This is a very entertaining and educational article, giving insights into the methods used by thiefs to try and get access to your phone data.
I don’t like Apple but it’s great that their security is so good when it comes to this.
This is a very entertaining and educational article, giving insights into the methods used by thiefs to try and get access to your phone data.
I don’t like Apple but it’s great that their security is so good when it comes to this.
This made me realize, as an android user, I have no idea what I’m supposed to do if someone steals my phone.
https://www.google.com/android/find/
hopefully you have it locked so they just wipe the data. and then you buy a new phone.
Luckily google keeps track of your every movement by default 🙂
Yeah and apple doesn’t…
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They have the same system. The phone is tied to your account and you can track, lock and erase it remotely with Google’s Find My Device.
Luckily I’ve only had to use “find my device” whenever my phone decides to catch-up with the TV remotes under the couch cushions
We have a black coffee table and sometimes it’s just on the coffee table and I’m like “Jesus fucking Christ what is wrong with you.”. In fairness to me, it’s summer, I keep the shades drawn, keeps the temps down.
Except you can more easily wipe the os at a low level and fully factory reset the device. That’s not possible with iPhones.
Afaik, that changed a while ago. Nowadays, it should still ask for the google account of the most recent owner.
yeah, factory reset protection, it wipes the user data, but will refuse to fully finish setting up the the os after the reset until the google acct is verified…
You can’t do that on modern phones with locked bootloader. This is the reason why manufacturers who allow bootloader unlock still don’t ship phones with bootloader unlocked by default.
Google has the same thing
Encrypt it with a strong password in the first place…