Post by @Septimaeus@infosec.pub

2026-10-04 03:35 UTC

Disclaimer: I only use iPhones for security testing, so this is more from related literature rather than first-hand experience. IIRC the hardening unattended reboot could offer is already covered better by options like disabling biometric unlock, security key 2FA, enabling lockdown mode, enabling advanced data protection, disabling iCloud, disabling USB accessories, and so forth. Also unattended reboot seems like an easy prank vector or foot gun to render a device permanently inaccessible (i.e., device always reboots immediately after pin entry) requiring recovery mode reset or restore to fix.

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@LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 2026-10-04 03:41

A. If you want 2fa to unlock a phone fuck off B. One has to opt in to iCloud. (It’s way to fucking motivated and absolutely a forced thing in my opinion though) If you can’t download an app without being signed into an account… You paved the way for Microsoft. Literally were the worst of the worst and made it so. Even the Microsoft store allowed $0 purchase without sign in for years after if not possibly still today. (I don’t use them). That said… Security testing anything should tell you the Apple/Google/Microsoft system is all wayyyy more secure using 2FA and activation locks we all hate because theft is a thing. We shouldn’t need an original proof of purchase to unlock a device, yet we do because social engineering makes it that way.

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