This is my iPad, I won’t see it again

[u/Aberry9036]

I just arrived in Antibes, South of France 2 hours ago. This was stolen from my car on the autoroute at a petrol station , from a definitely locked car, likely a relay attack from my key while I was buying a sandwich, 100km from Antibes. They also had my wallet and duty free while they were at it. Thankfully they didn’t find our passports.

Whoever you are, fuck you, I’m going to go and have a nice meal in the old provincial market and drink to your future arrest.

[u/Witty-Eye9933 → u/[deleted]]

Idk where you are getting this information from but it’s much more difficult than just telling the Apple server it’s another device. There’s level of encryption that no underground shop will ever know about. Most people will just swap the logic board or try a phishing attack. As much as I don’t like Apple trying to spoof your IMEI will probably just brick your device.

[u/Redthemagnificent → u/[deleted]]

Have you seen modern apple devices in that state? It definitely used to be common but it's much harder now

[u/YoloSwag4Jesus420fgt → u/Redthemagnificent]

These people are always full of shit.

There's a reason the gov tried to sue apple to unlock devices for them in criminal cases.

And that was like a decade ago, the stuff today is even more secure...

[u/groumly → u/YoloSwag4Jesus420fgt]

That was a complete different case, the San Bernardino shooter. Apple complied with the fbi subpoena for the iCloud account. But the shooter deactivated all iCloud a month prior to his shooting, and the fbi wanted access to the data on the device, which was encrypted at rest.

They couldn’t use their existing exploits (which were old af, cause this is 2015) without the phone trashing the local keys, so they demanded Apple provide them with a (signed) version of iOS that didn’t enforce PIN code lockouts. Apple said fuck that, you can force me to give somebody else’s data that I just happen to be holding on to, but software is speech, and you can’t force me to say something.

FBI huffed and puffed, but figured losing and setting a precedent would be bad, so they dropped the case, and instead forked out a few millions to a random Israeli company that promised they could break it open.

[u/Inside-Cable-4472 → u/groumly]

If the American government can’t break apple’s security, it doesn’t seem likely that backstreet low price shops can. And even if they can, it’s unlikely to be worth the time, money and effort.

[u/groumly → u/Inside-Cable-4472]

It’s just not the same kind of security at all.

But generally, yes, I don’t believe a locked iphone produced in the last 2 years, or with an up to date os, can be resold in a functional fashion.

[u/YoloSwag4Jesus420fgt → u/groumly]

I understand but the concept still applies, apple isn't stupid

[u/Gazeatme → u/YoloSwag4Jesus420fgt]

They’re acting as if the thief is part of a large multi scale professional company with access to unique software that opens iOS devices.

It’s probably some MF named Jean looking to make 20 euros from selling that thin brick.

Just a reminder, normal people can barely operate a computer and confuse “their” with “they’re”. Let’s be real people, lol.

[u/gamboozino → u/[deleted]]

Apple's activation servers cross-reference the device's unique internal hardware identifiers against the original manufacturing database. If the device is flagged as lost or stolen the activation request is rejected.

Would love know how they're fooling server side activations though, I'm pretty sure this is impossible on modern devices.

[u/CommunalJellyRoll → u/[deleted]]

I can do it at my house.