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Stolen Device Protection to thwart iPhone thieves with passcodes with time delay
wonkothesane said:Isn’t this solved already by using ScreenTime with a different Code and disable changing accounts?
I'm not familiar with using ScreenTime's security features. Does it allow you to set a _different_ passcode from your device passcode? Is that to what you are referring?
I think this Stolen Device Protection is another good step forward, as it considers location proximity into the equation. Our Smartphones are getting smarter.
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Stolen Device Protection to thwart iPhone thieves with passcodes with time delay
mrluis63 said:Big question for Apple 🍎 how much ? This is going to cost the American people. I know is not going to be free. Or is it?????????
Why the specificity of "American" people? Ah... I see.
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Senator Warren wades into Apple's Beeper fight with irrelevant antitrust rhetoric
The iMessage network is not "open" like much of the internet, so this was unauthorized access.
Bleeper was planning to share the code in the open-source space so it could be reviewed. Imagine how many nefarious folks could take that and abuse it by building apps that could steal info, and send spam!
While a shame, Apple was fully right to block access.
(RCS is not replacing SMS entirely. SMS remains the fallback option when a data connection is not available.)
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A bride-to-be discovers a reality-bending mistake in Apple's computational photography
Wooooooo! Looking at this photo gives me the shivers! Spooky!
It's either a computational processing glitch, or this was deliberately staged.
I didn't realize the computational photography feature would stitch portions of multiple photos together. I thought it just picked the best of the bunch. -
Google Drive users complain of missing files, months of data disappearing
BlueLightning said:Looking forward to a detailed explanation of issue's root cause. Not sure we will be told full details.
Found the following warning, but may not be related: "If you're over your storage quota for 2 years, your content across Gmail, Drive, and Photos may be deleted."
Wondering if Google Cloud sets a file expiration date? Problem sounds vaguely similar to problems on several OS's, but those probably were 40 to 50 years ago, and I cannot remember what caused the issue.
You're likely thinking about Y2K where years were often stored as 2 digits, so "88" could be 1888, 1988, or 2088. Some computers struggled with that as Year 2000 approached.
