Things the guys who stole my phone have texted me to try to get me to unlock it - Gothamist

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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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Nah - you’re complaining that you “were forced into handing your password to someone else” when there were at least six ways you could have avoided that:

  • you gone to the computer,
  • they send the computer to you,
  • you remote in to the computer,
  • you tell them “suck it, you should have blocked iCloud sign-in with MDM” or, as others mentioned,
  • you sign out before handing the computer back or, my favourite,
  • don’t sign in to personal accounts on work devices even if they bug you to.

Finally, we release devices like this all the time through our ABM account. It takes 5 days maximum. Your IT team led you up the garden path.

It was a small company, as he said elsewhere, negating your first 4 options, and the last two of blaming the user are equally stupid because Apple can fix this and doesn't want to. Not everybody has an MDM tool which can set up ownership right for Apple devices - and they should not have to

It's shameful that you have a bunch of upvotes and he's getting downvotes

You are bending over backwards to justify absolute garbage practices. I am aware there were literally other ways around this. I was more referring to being forced into a situation where I'd even need to consider this.

Yes, I shouldn't have used my personal account... however I also should have never expected doing so to tell apple "I own this shit please make sure no one else can use it ever without my permission". Logging into iCloud should mean "I want to use iCloud", which btw I NEVER wanted to do. Every time I opened system settings the piece of shit insisted I login to it. That alone is a problem. But I'm sure you'll justify that one too.