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Except where I live there is organized phone snatching. A crew of phone hackers hire drug addicts to yoink phones off transit riders and then pay them 10% of th
by dobbsbob 13y ago
Except where I live there is organized phone snatching. A crew of phone hackers hire drug addicts to yoink phones off transit riders and then pay them 10% of the value. They then go to work on the phone changing the IMEI and I would imagine easily bypassing this fingerprint auth. They make use of the data for fraud purposes and then wipe and sell the phone on the street, a block away from where I live outside a run down sketchy bar.
Police caught the "muggers" slipping the phones into faraday bags so they couldn't be remotely wiped which led them to the ringleaders. They were busted but I'm sure there's a new crew doing it
- ricardobeat 13y agoI don't think it's possible to change the IMEI on an iPhone at all, and "easily bypassing" touchID involves collecting the user's fingerprint, which I guess is not included in the drug addicts' service offerings.
- dobbsbob 13y agoYou can swap the logic board. They sell these for $80 or just trade with somebody who has a backlisted IMEI in UK/Australia for your US blacklisted phone. There's a bunch of crime forums that offer this service