Comment on Nearly two-fifths of robberies in London last year were for mobile phones

• frazorth@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  How do you send a phishing text to a phone you have stolen? The owner would either not get the text, or get it via iMessage which the response wouldn’t appear on the stolen phone. I’m not following this tactic, so I’m obviously missing something.

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  • 520@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The owner tries to call the number from another phone, usually a mobile.

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    • frazorth@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      So the owner calls the phone, which is answered by the thief who pretends to be Apple?

      Interesting.

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      • 520@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        They don't necessarily have to answer. They can just note the number that appears on-screen

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• blake@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  As usual, people are the weakest link in security.

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  • 520@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Exactly. The protections on the iPhone themselves are actually very strong for the time the phone released in. Unless you've got NSA-level hardware hackers in your org, this is by far your best bet.

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    • smeg@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Very much depends on your threat model. An iPhone is great if you trust Apple with the backdoor to your phone, if not then you’re probably much more secure with GrapheneOS.

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      • 520@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I mean yeah, obviously Apple isn't going to be able protect you much against a state-sponsored threat with their own private list of zero days, or Apple itself, but right now that's a small amount of people either are truly interested in fucking over.

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