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.

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    6 months ago

    I’m confused, in the article he said it was a brick to whoever has his stolen phone. How did they get his phone number to send him text messages? Did they crack the passcode and needed the iCloud password?

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      6 months ago

      I think when you remotely wipe the phone you can make it show a message with your phone number, in case you’re actually a honest person that found the phone instead of a thief.

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        6 months ago

        In the response posts to the article someone said they got the icloud address via reset request which you can use in iMessage.

        Not an i phone person so i can’t verify but thought id pass that along.

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      6 months ago

      The phone itself (by IMEI) is a brick. The sim and same phone number were assigned to a new phone and they texted that number

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          Typically if you report the phone stolen to your provider they blacklist the IMEI which gets shared with other providers so the phone can no longer be used. I was unclear on this part but a new e-sim can be provided for the new phone, and the old sim banned or the old one transferred. Regardless, the old phone will still show the IMEI/sim/phone number, which is how they got that to text them

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            6 months ago

            IMEI doesn’t mean shit, you can easily change it and no one really blacklists them. The iPhone is bricked on a hardware level through iCloud.

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        So they took the SIM card out and got the phone number from that? I guess I didn’t realize you could do that.