I HATE APPLE

hmm, backblaze b2 looks good, although i'd be slightly nervous about them being a smaller company and not sticking around.

Or you know, a lapse in security

i'm not a security person, but arq encrypts the data end to end. given enough time and nation state level resources it's probably breakable. but if nation state level resources are required somewhere in the chain of events that leads to your data being stolen then the difficulty of exfiltrating the encrypted data in the first place seems like a pretty minor challenge.

thanks!

My iCloud got hacked last night! At least I think that's what happened. I woke up and my phone had been locked from a foreign country. I was able to unlock it and reset my iCloud password. My MacBook Pro had been working for a little bit but then it defaulted to a grey screen asking for a pin with a sketchy email that it says to contact. I tried to reboot into recovery mode but it now has a firmware password set. Waiting until 8 so I can call Apple but maybe someone here has some idea of how to get rid of this?

Holy crap dude

that's crazy

is your phone still working?

It's a thing right now, sadly https://www.macrumors.com/2017/09/20/hackers-find-my-iphone-remote-mac-lock/

I've got a genius appt for tmmrw to get it all sorted out (hopefully). What they should do is let you unlock it from iCloud.

mordy i absolutely don't mean to rub anything in, just want to check: do you use two factor authentication?

I wonder how many people are bitching about their secret porn stash app's camouflage being ruined by the new look of the Calculator app

xpost it sounds like 2 factor does nothing to prevent this though?

Yup, you're not asked to 2fa to remote lock a device on your apple account.

I do use it but it didn't help :(

Solution: don't use iCloud?

oh shit, that's really bad, sorry for useless post

Solution: don't use iCloud?

― calstars, Saturday, 23 September 2017 07:53 (thirty-six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

tricky, since a load of stock apps rely on icloud if you have 2+ apple devices and want to sync notes &c.

i mean you can most likely do it if you rely on third party apps for everything that matters to you.

This sounds scary. So the macrumors article is saying it only affects people who've used their iCloud password elsewhere, right?

Also this from lifehacker:

We continued testing “Find My Device.” We found that “Find My iPhone” couldn’t lock an iPhone that already had passcode protection. But it could enable a new passcode on a phone that previously had none.

I'm curious if this was Mordy's situation.

My phone already had a passcode which is likely why they were unable to lock it

1. Never not have a passcode
2. Never don't use 2FA
3. Never re-use your Apple ID password

Also sorry Mordy that sucks

not smug about this at all, and i can't imagine how i'd be freaking right now if this happened to me, but i never turned on "find my iphone" precisely because it seemed like an attack vector, to use the phrasey-ology, that would some day some way be exploited

I dunno, I've lost iPhones and iPads & iPod touches to thefts & burglaries (ugh) and I was happy to be able to lock them remotely. You can put a message on the lost device so we put our phone number & a few months later with the iPads I got a text from Tunisia from someone who wanted me to send them the passcode for the device because they couldn't unlock it. L O L was our reply obv but I'm glad that no one else could use the devices.

I’m curious about how most people with a single email address handle apple’s policy of not letting the recovery email be the same as their appleid email

I woke up from a nap the other evening and had a half dozen recovery codes.... for my mom. When we set up her account I used my address because it was convenient, and that was how I discovered she has a new iPad!

I think it’s fine, I could probably have it sent to my dad’s email, but it was funny

I've turned Find My Mac off for the moment.

You should be fine from this attack so long as both your Apple ID and recovery email account passwords are unique and secure. But eugh, it's time to leave passwords behind.

Any word about how long they take to fix this? Is it a fifteen minute kind of thing or am I going without my laptop for a day or two?

I think you'd have to go with whatever support says? I don't think anyone's reported back yet, but this is something where only they're going to know and afaik each person affected will have to call support, unless all of the requests came from one malicious person

lol https://robservatory.com/apple-says-dont-use-time-machine-if-you-take-lots-of-photos/

Every review of the iPhone 8 is like , "it's a great phone, but who's it for?" What hogwash.

The sentiment is hogwash, or the phone is?

It’s a reasonable incremental update and the majority of people treat phones as a commodity. Most will maybe get a new one when their carrier contract expires, and it’s a matter of having a thing you can do all the normal phone crap on, with a camera that’s better, maybe some tweaks

have had to hard reset my SE like 4 times since updating to 11.0.1, what, less than 48 hours ago

have had to hard reset my SE like 4 times since updating to 11.0.1, what, less than 48 hours ago

i left my iphone 6 in aeroplane mode overnight and it lost 15% battery. this release is a mess.

I HATE APPLE

aeroplane mode

I don't know why I find this funny

My battery’s draining faster than a velocipede!!!

Yah same

as incredibly good as this new apple watch is, siri still needs work. on the whole it’s the best it’s ever been by some distance, but the snarky responses get in the way of accessibility, e.g. when you ask what the time is (because sight impaired people would rely on questions like this) and it says “same time as it was yesterday hur dur”, and displays the time but doesn’t announce it. can’t believe they haven’t sorted this out.

I've been ruined by Star Trek most assuredly, but the "processing" time for Siri always feels too slow to me

google’s much quicker so yeah

"play my favourites"

"here's what I found about 'your favorites' on the internet"

"Call goomah"
"Call mom?"

watch out if you're managing external disks you might ever need to read from a non-high sierra mac https://mjtsai.com/blog/2017/09/29/unwanted-conversions-to-apfs/

Updated to 11.0.1, and battery life on my iPhone 7 Plus is improved...But just had the first complete frozen screen ever, and had to hard reset.

11.0.2 and my battery life is still a fucking disgrace

the question I have about the iPhone X is, does it make phone calls?

yes but only to high net-worth individuals

really not looking forward to a year of "actually it's pronounced iphone ten"