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Ludicrous0251@piefed.zip to Privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 14 hours ago

FBI Couldn’t Get into WaPo Reporter’s iPhone Because It Had Lockdown Mode Enabled

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FBI Couldn’t Get into WaPo Reporter’s iPhone Because It Had Lockdown Mode Enabled

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Lockdown Mode is a sometimes overlooked feature of Apple devices that broadly make them harder to hack. A court record indicates the feature might be effective at stopping third parties unlocking someone's device. At least for now.
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    It’ll also trigger a call to 911, which is gonna be hard to disable in your pocket

    Edit: this is configurable behavior

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      No it doesn’t. It just locks the screen and requires passcode. It’s the same thing that happens if you hold power and volume to bring up the emergency call or power off screen.

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        I just tested on my iPhone and it does. Guessing it’s a setting.

        … and after checking it is indeed a setting. Not sure if I turned that on or if it was on by default.

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          Which setting is it?

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            Emergency SOS, few different settings in there that change the behaviour

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      It did for a hot minute. I just checked and it no longer does.

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