A Potentially Major Security Issue

By Enes Deniz, 8 November, 2023

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iOS and iPadOS

If you power off your iPhone and then power it back on, it requires your passcode instead of Touch ID, and possibly Face ID as well, which I have not used myself. The very key point of having these identity verification methods, however, is the fact that they're already meant to add a second layer of security and prevent anyone else from accessing your device even if they do know the passcode. So imagine a situation where one's iPhone gets stolen with the screen unlocked, and whoever steals the device immediately powers it off, knowing he/she won't have to have the device recognize his/her fingerprint or face. When he/she powers it back on, all he/she will have to do is enter the passcode, and if he/she does not remove the SIM card, the PIN code, which he/she might also know in addition to the passcode. So Touch ID or Face ID may require the passcode to be activated upon startup, but then we must have to verify ourselves and make sure it is the actual user who has just entered the passcode.

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By Dominic on Thursday, November 23, 2023 - 11:02

My god I legit have nothing to hide. Like what the hell are they gonna find! They won’t find any account details on my device except for my Apple ID email which is there gonna have to find the settings and even then they gonna have to attempt to turn off VoiceOver with display brightness zero and Screen curtain on and I most likely have VoiceOver. I don’t really hard taste of speech rate most of the time, so it isn’t as if they gonna find anything and nothing is really important to them either like you won’t find hundreds of thousands of millions or billions of trillions of bank statements was online dating apps, or dating in general, like I’m too young for that my guy

By Enes Deniz on Thursday, November 23, 2023 - 11:02

Here's one of those users that don't care about all those features that much, yet they still do have to be implemented.

By Dominic on Thursday, November 23, 2023 - 11:02

You are most definitely willcom

Apple is a really secure operating system. It’s more secure than android and Windows.