iPhone Activation Lock Bypass
Mar 30, 2015 | 10:50 pm
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iPhone Activation Lock Bypass
I'm shocked that it's apparently possible to bypass Apple's vaunted Activation Lock. Wasn't this designed to make it impossible to use an iDevice that has been lost/stolen? How is this possible?
https://iclouddnsbypass.com/
Comments from the security people out there?
https://iclouddnsbypass.com/
Comments from the security people out there?
Mar 31, 2015 | 3:10 pm
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April Fools?
In Soviet Russia we control brightness with black tape.
https://iclouddnsbypass.com/brightne...ack-duct-tape/
In Soviet Russia we control brightness with black tape.
https://iclouddnsbypass.com/brightne...ack-duct-tape/
Mar 31, 2015 | 6:28 pm
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April Fools?
In Soviet Russia we control brightness with black tape.
https://iclouddnsbypass.com/brightne...ack-duct-tape/
In Soviet Russia we control brightness with black tape.
https://iclouddnsbypass.com/brightne...ack-duct-tape/
Pretty crazy that they claim to have 300,000 devices online. Thats a lot of stolen iPhones.
Apr 1, 2015 | 9:34 pm
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Can someone clarify this? Isn't rerouting through their DNS pretty much similar to using their site as a proxy except without the speed loss? That pretty much means the site can see everything unencrypted that you send, not to mention the apps you download from them can easily have backdoors hidden in them to act as a middleman and steal your login sessions?
Apr 2, 2015 | 4:43 am
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Can someone clarify this? Isn't rerouting through their DNS pretty much similar to using their site as a proxy except without the speed loss? That pretty much means the site can see everything unencrypted that you send, not to mention the apps you download from them can easily have backdoors hidden in them to act as a middleman and steal your login sessions?
I'd say encrypted secure data in the iPhone is not accessible, but the chance to get your account credentials phished is high.
Apr 4, 2015 | 1:30 pm
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I lost an iPhone 5 in Amsterdam last year. Never showed up on Find Your iPhone so I put it in lost mode, with contact info., a Google Voice number.
When I got home, I got a bunch of texts from a "FindMyiPhone Service!!!" with a URL to click.
Clicking the URL, it showed some iCloud with Eastern European domains. I verified that Apple does not have iCloud with multiple domains. But the art on these pages were exactly like iCloud and it was prompting me to log in with my Apple ID.
Presumably that meant they couldn't hack into the phone without my Apple ID password.
If the iPhone Activation Lock was really bypassed or hacked, it should be making huge waves.
When I got home, I got a bunch of texts from a "FindMyiPhone Service!!!" with a URL to click.
Clicking the URL, it showed some iCloud with Eastern European domains. I verified that Apple does not have iCloud with multiple domains. But the art on these pages were exactly like iCloud and it was prompting me to log in with my Apple ID.
Presumably that meant they couldn't hack into the phone without my Apple ID password.
If the iPhone Activation Lock was really bypassed or hacked, it should be making huge waves.