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submitted 5 months ago by 1984@lemmy.today to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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[-] BeardedBlaze@lemmy.world -3 points 5 months ago

Your "IT" could've literally do fresh install of MacOS. I'm not a fan of Apple, but that's just silly.

[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Pretty sure that's what they were trying to do. I know for sure that on iPhones, if you ever sign in (which I think is required), wiping the phone doesn't matter, it's still locked to that account somehow -- a ROM chip on the board stores the account info somehow I think? I think their computers work the same way now.

On other systems, logging in means that: you've logged in. And you should be right: wiping the OS should always remove any login/account status. If Apple wants to provide some system like this for people worried about theft, cool, let them opt into it. But don't force every user to.

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