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Why would you ever do this with the real device without thoroughly testing the circumstances with a stand-in first? From a technical perspective, it seems very
by obsurveyor 11y ago
Why would you ever do this with the real device without thoroughly testing the circumstances with a stand-in first?
From a technical perspective, it seems very simple and easy to replicate before actually doing it and locking yourself out completely like they seem to have done.
- johnminter 11y agoYes. The analytical chemist's credo: never test an irreplaceable sample using an untested procedure. Or as Norm Abrams from This Old House put it, "Measure twice, cut once." Spares one that embarrassing moment when you say, "I cut it off twice and its still too short." :)
- tomschlick 11y agoShit they didn't even have to do that. A simple phone call to Apple saying "Hey if we reset this password how much are we going to fuck everything up?" would have sufficed. Straight amateur hour over at the FBI