An iCloud lock associates the serial number of an iPhone to an iCloud account.
No matter which way you erase the device, as soon as the device connects to the internet (this cannot be skipped, either through cellular, wifi, or wired to a computer), the first thing that happens is the device connects to the Apple servers and sends the serial number and checks if it's locked or not.
There are videos showing iCloud lock removals by reprogramming the chips that have the serial to a different number, but that involves completely disassembling the device and desoldering a specific chip from the logic board, then reprogramming it with a very specific piece of hardware. I'm not sure if that still works, the last video I saw of it was an iPhone 6S from years ago.
Apple can disassociate a device from the iCloud account that it's tied to at any time. That means you can factory wipe the device and use the hardware as if it was out of the box new again.
They won't unless you have an original receipt of purchase, and the device hasn't been put into lost mode.
That doesn't mean they will grant access to the account that is signed in, it just means the device will be erased and an entirely new account can be signed in.
Apple has a program specifically for companies with corporate owned iPhones. The person who posted that they have "hudreds" of locked iPhones is either a troll or has the worst IT department, as well as the worst CTO, on the planet.
Corporate iPhones are registered with the company and no matter the personal account signed onto the phone, corporate IT can remove the lock any time they want.
Apple specifically has a program for corporate, mass-purchased phones. Enroll them in the MDM program and corporate IT can remove the lock no matter which employee locks the phone.
You can be sure that it's in the fine print or the customer is notified verbally not to wipe the old device until they have confirmed all of their old data is on the new device.
Anyone able to translate for people who're not interested enough to understand jargon nor follow the life of some game creator?
Notch has some incredibly stupid personal ideas about society, backed up by reading a subforum on reddit that is filled with shitty people and creating an echo chamber of "I deserve to get laid by women" instead of treating women like normal human beings. This shitty thinking extends to white nationalism as well, because SURPRISE: most of them are sheltered white young males with little to no empathy, claiming there is a conspiracy against white people and they have to get ready for an upcoming race war.
They use The Matrix as a way to show that they are informed of the "real world" and believe these shitty ideas, aka taking the red pill and seeing how deep the rabbit hole goes.
Pay the entire bill at the end of the month, never pay a cent of interest.
If you're letting your balance roll over, you are doing it wrong.
Credit cards can be a very handy tool, both for getting cash back as well as protecting yourself when purchasing items. Things like chargebacks and all the additional protections the card issuer grants are way better than walking around with a bunch of cash.
If you want to stay anonymous, "use a VPN" is only good advice if the VPN doesn't keep logs of which IP accesses which sites.
That's like saying "have a condom handy when you're having sex." It doesn't do any fucking good if you just look at it while you're raw-dogging the woman.
A VPN that keeps logs is just making your internet slower because you're bottlenecking through it. If you are worried that someone is going to trace you, they can do so with the same legal paperwork and subpoena's that they can use to trace all the rest of your IP traffic. The one Opera is offering is worthless, unless all you care about is watching Netflix shows from a different country.
I've wanted to play D&D for 20 years, but have never been in a location where a local group was within a reasonable driving distance.
I know roll20.net has been around for some time, but for someone that has literally never been able to even watch a game, watching sessions on twitch are an amazing introduction. It's great to be able to watch and see just how people interact with each other when you're an absolute beginner.
Also: D&D is just group storytelling. Sometimes you just want to watch and enjoy the story playing out.
If you're determined enough as a 3-letter agency to get in, then you can also disappear the person. Beat them enough and they'll give up the password. That beating can be either physically beating, or mental by doing things to family, friends, bank accounts, etc.
Why? I pay exactly the amount Comcasts quoted me. $49.95. That’s the exact amount I pay. I have zere extra charges since I own my own router and modem. It’s been the most reliable internet service I have ever had. I’ve been an extremely satisfied customer and will continue with them when I move into my new house this month.
Maybe for this month.
I work in IT, I'm 100% familiar and comfortable with owning my own modem and troubleshooting and everything else involved in handling all problems by myself and not calling Comcast. They still, every year, after about 6 months after renewing my contract, always try to slip about a $5/month "additional charge due to regulations" into my bill.
I contest it, they remove it, until my 12 months is up.
I play the "I'm going to cancel" game, say all I want is the same price I paid last year (even though all research shows the price of broadband goes down for providers every year) and I get the normal response when there's no actual legitimate rival in the area: "sorry, all we have is your same speed for $15/month more than before, or the same price you paid before for less bandwidth."
At least this year AT&T finally wired my area up for fiber. I'll be dumping comcast and I cannot wait for the "please keep us, we'll do better" part of me canceling. AT&T is still bad, but at least they aren't comcast.
Fuck Comcast, Fuck Ajit Pai, fuck the entire industry.
You have a 1d6 for how much damage is going to hit your character.
You roll every round, But every round, your die increases its max range.
Round 1: 1d6: you roll a 3, your neighbors patio chair takes off and lands on your car, denting the hood and breaking a window. You need to call insurance.
Round 2: 1d7: you roll a 2 and some branches break off a tree in your driveway that you have to drag to the corner.
Round 3: 1d8: you roll a 1 and you sleep through the storm in your house.
Round 4: 1d9: you roll a 3 and your fence loses some sections but can be fixed.
Round 5: 1d10: you roll a 6, what used to be the maximum. Windows in your house can't take the beating and shatter. You lose some furniture but your house is still standing but you need to do some work stripping the drywall on the 1st floor and redoing the lower level of the house.
Round 6: 1d11 "this one goes to 11": You roll an 11. The hand of God drops. You are like a slug that just had a pound of salt drop on it. The flood reaches the roof of your 2-story home and the force of all that moving water rips your house away and turns your property into nothing more than a flat area with a cement base. . Literally everything you had is gone. Maybe a family member died. (I live in Houston and literally went through this scenario, and before you say anything yes I know about flood plains and am changing where I choose to buy my next house.)
"Why didn't the projections say anything when we had all those years of light damage?"
Are you proud of this statement? That you pay that much for literally only internet per month? I hope you're getting gigabit down and up for that price, because otherwise you should be angry.
You even say it yourself in the second half of your post, they'd cut prices in half if there was any competition at all. Your post is celebrating that you pay $100/mo because they have a monopoly, and just tossing aside that their costs are so low they'd cut your price in half if anyone even challenged them.
400 BILLION was given to the ISP's to upgrade the US to fiber to the house. That money should have gone a lot further in the 90's than 400 billion would now, but the ISP's did basically nothing with it. They used loopholes to declare that because there was a fiber connection somewhere on the line, the plan for all houses to be fiber to the home was complete.
The telecoms pocketed all that money and declared it as quarterly profits. If this idea goes anywhere, Ajit Pai will laugh as another half trillion dollars goes up in smoke as government money goes up to the same companies and is just declared profits again when they declare "oops, we already completed the goal before the first check was ever cashed, but thanks for the money!"
I waffled between modding you up and replying saying that you are 100% correct. Hopefully someone else mods you up.
This is currently built into the phone and I just tried it on my personal 6S+ running iOS 12.0.1.
"Hey Siri, who's phone is this?" immediately prevents the phone from using TouchID. It gives contact info about the owner (the phone number), but also immediately prevented me from using my fingerprint. The only way back into my phone was the passcode.
I tried this 5 different times just to make sure my finger wasn't in a bad spot, every single time after asking Siri whose phone it was. My fingerprint was immediately disabled and I needed the passcode every time. I've never had my phone mistake my fingerprint more than once before unlocking, and each time after unlocking after asking Siri, I did lock the phone again and confirm my fingerprint was working.
I don't even use Snapchat and I could have told you MONTHS ago that they were about to fall off a cliff. How many stories were here on/. or on any other news site or discussion forum that had near unanimous hatred from the people about the changes. When even your star power is trashing the change and quitting, you fucked up.
"If this file is changed in any way, even the slightest individual frame, the hash won't be the same. It's the same as an evidence bag with an indicator that shows that it has already been opened."
That's not how phone unlocking works at all. You can put any number of SIMs into a phone, as long as they're from the company the phone is locked to. This won't change with ESIMS, the only difference will be instead of a physical card you swap out, you just tell the company the number of the SIM. The hardware of the phone either is or isn't locked regardless of the SIM or ESIM to a certain network, based on your contract.
Nothing has changed at all regarding cell phone unlocking with the swap to ESIMs. Sprint will still continue to be annoying as hell to unlock from, but that's on Sprint, not on Apple.
You're blatantly spreading FUD, but I guess I'll bite.
Your unlocked phone is linked to whichever service it's initially activated with. Even an unlocked phone, you can't take out an AT&T card and swap in a Sprint card and just turn it back on and have it work. The activation profile is still AT&T until you do either a phone erase from the settings menu or through iTunes. There are some very specific exceptions, like if you're using an AT&T phone and put in a SIM card that is an MVNO that uses AT&Ts network. Even then, it's a very specific circumstance where you can just turn off the phone and swap cards without doing a restore. You can still restore an iTunes/iCloud backup, but the initial configuration is set when the phone is first set up from the 'Hello' screen.
So no, you could (almost) never just use a paperclip and swap carriers. Just like the Apple Watch, the ESIM has a specific identifier that you just tell the new carrier what it is and they register it to their network. You can twist yourself in knots all you want about "I don't know where to get that number from because I'm scared to tap on the info button" but it saves you a trip to your new cell carriers physical store and you can just call them from another phone and tell them the number (or still go to the actual store if you don't have another phone).
As for your pricing, $2600 CAD is currently $2000 USD. You've taken literally the most expensive model, maxed out the storage, put not only AppleCare+, but also the additional loss/theft coverage on it, and STILL have extra money that I'm not sure where you came up with. Are you also adding in the cost of a case plus Airpods? Again, FUD.
Please make up more fake examples in your mind why the new phone that you haven't touched or even seen in person yet is literally Hitler in phone form.
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Is the pile of useless phones that now have to be replaced not worth the MDM cost?
An iCloud lock associates the serial number of an iPhone to an iCloud account.
No matter which way you erase the device, as soon as the device connects to the internet (this cannot be skipped, either through cellular, wifi, or wired to a computer), the first thing that happens is the device connects to the Apple servers and sends the serial number and checks if it's locked or not.
There are videos showing iCloud lock removals by reprogramming the chips that have the serial to a different number, but that involves completely disassembling the device and desoldering a specific chip from the logic board, then reprogramming it with a very specific piece of hardware. I'm not sure if that still works, the last video I saw of it was an iPhone 6S from years ago.
Apple can disassociate a device from the iCloud account that it's tied to at any time. That means you can factory wipe the device and use the hardware as if it was out of the box new again.
They won't unless you have an original receipt of purchase, and the device hasn't been put into lost mode.
That doesn't mean they will grant access to the account that is signed in, it just means the device will be erased and an entirely new account can be signed in.
Apple has a program specifically for companies with corporate owned iPhones. The person who posted that they have "hudreds" of locked iPhones is either a troll or has the worst IT department, as well as the worst CTO, on the planet.
Corporate iPhones are registered with the company and no matter the personal account signed onto the phone, corporate IT can remove the lock any time they want.
You are lying or your IT department is inept.
Apple specifically has a program for corporate, mass-purchased phones. Enroll them in the MDM program and corporate IT can remove the lock no matter which employee locks the phone.
You can be sure that it's in the fine print or the customer is notified verbally not to wipe the old device until they have confirmed all of their old data is on the new device.
Anyone able to translate for people who're not interested enough to understand jargon nor follow the life of some game creator?
Notch has some incredibly stupid personal ideas about society, backed up by reading a subforum on reddit that is filled with shitty people and creating an echo chamber of "I deserve to get laid by women" instead of treating women like normal human beings. This shitty thinking extends to white nationalism as well, because SURPRISE: most of them are sheltered white young males with little to no empathy, claiming there is a conspiracy against white people and they have to get ready for an upcoming race war.
They use The Matrix as a way to show that they are informed of the "real world" and believe these shitty ideas, aka taking the red pill and seeing how deep the rabbit hole goes.
Pay the entire bill at the end of the month, never pay a cent of interest.
If you're letting your balance roll over, you are doing it wrong.
Credit cards can be a very handy tool, both for getting cash back as well as protecting yourself when purchasing items. Things like chargebacks and all the additional protections the card issuer grants are way better than walking around with a bunch of cash.
If they can do it and give a better price than buying them all separately... and I mean a REALLY GOOD price discount, maybe.
Can I literally pick only the stations/streams that I want to pay for, and not a bundle that includes 30 things I don't give a mosquitos fart about?
Last question: Will they refuse to put ads in to raise the revenue stream?
If all 3 are a yes, I'm interested in at least seeing what the pricing is.
If you want to stay anonymous, "use a VPN" is only good advice if the VPN doesn't keep logs of which IP accesses which sites.
That's like saying "have a condom handy when you're having sex." It doesn't do any fucking good if you just look at it while you're raw-dogging the woman.
A VPN that keeps logs is just making your internet slower because you're bottlenecking through it. If you are worried that someone is going to trace you, they can do so with the same legal paperwork and subpoena's that they can use to trace all the rest of your IP traffic. The one Opera is offering is worthless, unless all you care about is watching Netflix shows from a different country.
I've wanted to play D&D for 20 years, but have never been in a location where a local group was within a reasonable driving distance.
I know roll20.net has been around for some time, but for someone that has literally never been able to even watch a game, watching sessions on twitch are an amazing introduction. It's great to be able to watch and see just how people interact with each other when you're an absolute beginner.
Also: D&D is just group storytelling. Sometimes you just want to watch and enjoy the story playing out.
I've received exactly 1 political call, versus 100+ Apple/Microsoft/IRS/Car warranty/Jenny from service/CC calls in the last month.
The weak link is always the human.
If you're determined enough as a 3-letter agency to get in, then you can also disappear the person. Beat them enough and they'll give up the password. That beating can be either physically beating, or mental by doing things to family, friends, bank accounts, etc.
Why? I pay exactly the amount Comcasts quoted me. $49.95. That’s the exact amount I pay. I have zere extra charges since I own my own router and modem. It’s been the most reliable internet service I have ever had. I’ve been an extremely satisfied customer and will continue with them when I move into my new house this month.
Maybe for this month.
I work in IT, I'm 100% familiar and comfortable with owning my own modem and troubleshooting and everything else involved in handling all problems by myself and not calling Comcast. They still, every year, after about 6 months after renewing my contract, always try to slip about a $5/month "additional charge due to regulations" into my bill.
I contest it, they remove it, until my 12 months is up.
I play the "I'm going to cancel" game, say all I want is the same price I paid last year (even though all research shows the price of broadband goes down for providers every year) and I get the normal response when there's no actual legitimate rival in the area: "sorry, all we have is your same speed for $15/month more than before, or the same price you paid before for less bandwidth."
At least this year AT&T finally wired my area up for fiber. I'll be dumping comcast and I cannot wait for the "please keep us, we'll do better" part of me canceling. AT&T is still bad, but at least they aren't comcast.
Fuck Comcast, Fuck Ajit Pai, fuck the entire industry.
Does Apple have to make Apple Music work on Android?
They already have: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.apple.android.music&hl=en_US
Imagine you are rolling in a D&D game.
You have a 1d6 for how much damage is going to hit your character.
You roll every round, But every round, your die increases its max range.
Round 1: 1d6: you roll a 3, your neighbors patio chair takes off and lands on your car, denting the hood and breaking a window. You need to call insurance.
Round 2: 1d7: you roll a 2 and some branches break off a tree in your driveway that you have to drag to the corner.
Round 3: 1d8: you roll a 1 and you sleep through the storm in your house.
Round 4: 1d9: you roll a 3 and your fence loses some sections but can be fixed.
Round 5: 1d10: you roll a 6, what used to be the maximum. Windows in your house can't take the beating and shatter. You lose some furniture but your house is still standing but you need to do some work stripping the drywall on the 1st floor and redoing the lower level of the house.
Round 6: 1d11 "this one goes to 11": You roll an 11. The hand of God drops. You are like a slug that just had a pound of salt drop on it. The flood reaches the roof of your 2-story home and the force of all that moving water rips your house away and turns your property into nothing more than a flat area with a cement base. . Literally everything you had is gone. Maybe a family member died. (I live in Houston and literally went through this scenario, and before you say anything yes I know about flood plains and am changing where I choose to buy my next house.)
"Why didn't the projections say anything when we had all those years of light damage?"
Assuming you're in the US, when was the last time anyone actually even pretended to look at the back of your credit card to compare signatures?
Are you proud of this statement? That you pay that much for literally only internet per month? I hope you're getting gigabit down and up for that price, because otherwise you should be angry.
You even say it yourself in the second half of your post, they'd cut prices in half if there was any competition at all. Your post is celebrating that you pay $100/mo because they have a monopoly, and just tossing aside that their costs are so low they'd cut your price in half if anyone even challenged them.
We tried this once in the 90's.
400 BILLION was given to the ISP's to upgrade the US to fiber to the house. That money should have gone a lot further in the 90's than 400 billion would now, but the ISP's did basically nothing with it. They used loopholes to declare that because there was a fiber connection somewhere on the line, the plan for all houses to be fiber to the home was complete.
The telecoms pocketed all that money and declared it as quarterly profits. If this idea goes anywhere, Ajit Pai will laugh as another half trillion dollars goes up in smoke as government money goes up to the same companies and is just declared profits again when they declare "oops, we already completed the goal before the first check was ever cashed, but thanks for the money!"
>Why would it be illegal to give out a fake address?
Because someone died. They will have their case in court and may be exonerated, or they may be found partially at fault for someone dying.
I waffled between modding you up and replying saying that you are 100% correct. Hopefully someone else mods you up.
This is currently built into the phone and I just tried it on my personal 6S+ running iOS 12.0.1.
"Hey Siri, who's phone is this?" immediately prevents the phone from using TouchID. It gives contact info about the owner (the phone number), but also immediately prevented me from using my fingerprint. The only way back into my phone was the passcode.
I tried this 5 different times just to make sure my finger wasn't in a bad spot, every single time after asking Siri whose phone it was. My fingerprint was immediately disabled and I needed the passcode every time. I've never had my phone mistake my fingerprint more than once before unlocking, and each time after unlocking after asking Siri, I did lock the phone again and confirm my fingerprint was working.
I don't even use Snapchat and I could have told you MONTHS ago that they were about to fall off a cliff. How many stories were here on /. or on any other news site or discussion forum that had near unanimous hatred from the people about the changes. When even your star power is trashing the change and quitting, you fucked up.
The CEO is just now realizing this?
"If this file is changed in any way, even the slightest individual frame, the hash won't be the same. It's the same as an evidence bag with an indicator that shows that it has already been opened."
Pretty damn simple.
That's not how phone unlocking works at all. You can put any number of SIMs into a phone, as long as they're from the company the phone is locked to. This won't change with ESIMS, the only difference will be instead of a physical card you swap out, you just tell the company the number of the SIM. The hardware of the phone either is or isn't locked regardless of the SIM or ESIM to a certain network, based on your contract.
Nothing has changed at all regarding cell phone unlocking with the swap to ESIMs. Sprint will still continue to be annoying as hell to unlock from, but that's on Sprint, not on Apple.
You're blatantly spreading FUD, but I guess I'll bite.
Your unlocked phone is linked to whichever service it's initially activated with. Even an unlocked phone, you can't take out an AT&T card and swap in a Sprint card and just turn it back on and have it work. The activation profile is still AT&T until you do either a phone erase from the settings menu or through iTunes. There are some very specific exceptions, like if you're using an AT&T phone and put in a SIM card that is an MVNO that uses AT&Ts network. Even then, it's a very specific circumstance where you can just turn off the phone and swap cards without doing a restore. You can still restore an iTunes/iCloud backup, but the initial configuration is set when the phone is first set up from the 'Hello' screen.
So no, you could (almost) never just use a paperclip and swap carriers. Just like the Apple Watch, the ESIM has a specific identifier that you just tell the new carrier what it is and they register it to their network. You can twist yourself in knots all you want about "I don't know where to get that number from because I'm scared to tap on the info button" but it saves you a trip to your new cell carriers physical store and you can just call them from another phone and tell them the number (or still go to the actual store if you don't have another phone).
As for your pricing, $2600 CAD is currently $2000 USD. You've taken literally the most expensive model, maxed out the storage, put not only AppleCare+, but also the additional loss/theft coverage on it, and STILL have extra money that I'm not sure where you came up with. Are you also adding in the cost of a case plus Airpods? Again, FUD.
Please make up more fake examples in your mind why the new phone that you haven't touched or even seen in person yet is literally Hitler in phone form.