How To Fix SOS Only Issues on iPhone

Apple has never failed to provide great features to its iPhone users. Whether it comes to safety or anything else, Apple always thinks for iPhone users’ good. We all have heard different news about the emergency features provided by Apple on the …

April 18, 2023
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Bypassing a Theft Threat Model

Thieves cut through the wall of a coffee shop to get to an Apple store, bypassing the alarms in the process.

I wrote about this kind of thing in 2000, in Secrets and Lies (page 318):

My favorite example is a band of California art thieves that would break into people’s houses by cutting a hole in their walls with a chainsaw. The attacker completely bypassed the threat model of the defender. The countermeasures that the homeowner put in place were door and window alarms; they didn’t make a difference to this attack.

The article says they took half a million dollars worth of iPhones. I don’t understand iPhone device security, but don’t they have a system of denying stolen phones access to the network?…

April 13, 2023
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