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DeadPhan



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lost my ipad. will someone be able to hack in and see my shit if i have it locked?
#18999755 - 10/19/13 01:19 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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so i was wasted the other night and for whatever reason went out with my ipad. i dont remember why. i think i was heading to chill at a spot by my house and was either watching something, or reading something and wanted to bring it with. anyhoo, i ended up needing more beer and left wherever i was at. i know a general location of where i was, but not precisely but within like a thousand feet radius or so. instead of heading back to the house to bring my ipad, i stashed it somewhere outside. i completly forgot where. and although, im pretty sure its probaly still in the same spot, i cant be sure as i dont even remember. i think i know the general area and its only so far, but, im waiting for sunday, as i was at some point in some parking lots nearby and might of stashed in under a porch of an office or a bush or something so im waiting till no one is at the businesses to check. i very likely stashed in my backyard, and have searched but to no avail yet.
this happens to me fairly often with shit fuckin alcohol. i hide shit and end up losing. im sure some can relate.
i have it hooked up to the lost app on my iphone. but its not a 3g ipad, and it will only alert me location once it gets online. so unless someone nears unprotected wifi i wont get that alert i gather.
im just curious, if someone found it, do they have the ablity to hack into it being that i have it password protected, or do they only have the option of restoring and erasing it to factory settings? anyone know?
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NotTheDevil
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Re: lost my ipad. will someone be able to hack in and see my shit if i have it locked? [Re: DeadPhan]
#18999762 - 10/19/13 01:23 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Its probably possible if they really wanted to, but its rather unlikely.
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Re: lost my ipad. will someone be able to hack in and see my shit if i have it locked? [Re: NotTheDevil]
#18999778 - 10/19/13 01:26 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Wouldn't be surprised if it was impossible. Encryption can be tantamount to a self-destruct button.
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Re: lost my ipad. will someone be able to hack in and see my shit if i have it locked? [Re: s240779]
#18999782 - 10/19/13 01:28 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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I thought as long as you have location services on you could still track for your device
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DeadPhan



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Re: lost my ipad. will someone be able to hack in and see my shit if i have it locked? [Re: Herbologist]
#18999794 - 10/19/13 01:34 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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i can only track it if its hooked up to the internet. being that my ipad is not a 3g device and only a wifi, it makes it tricky. ive lost my iphone before and that was easy findings. however, with the wifi dealy, anyone finding my ipad would first, have to make sure it still had a charge. and then, would have to be within range of a wifi connection that is not password protected to be able to automatically connect.
this day in age, those wifi connects are pretty scarce. over the years ive done alot of traveling. between, living in RV's, and out of my backpack on my feet. almost always having a laptop with me. and i would come across unprotected signals more often than not. these days, not so much.
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Re: lost my ipad. will someone be able to hack in and see my shit if i have it locked? [Re: DeadPhan]
#18999811 - 10/19/13 01:38 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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My uncle knows someone in Boston that can hack into phones without users suspecting that an invader has intruded into their phone network. He says that he does it as a hobby, he just will connect his system to this high tech outlet which multiplies the frequency of the gadget and overpowers the features so it implodes in a series of pitchdark frames over extending the top half of the gadget. Indeed, it seems that I wished to acquire some ability to attain a improved state of hacking, for I tried to hack in the past and I had failed on all accounts.
But my brother said he could hack and I believed him and did think he would ever say something and not mean what he said, since, a year before he promised to take me to a baseball game in Michigan and he didn't fall short of my expectations for him to bring me there. He insisted that I come along and I couldn't resist the urge to accept his invitation to Michigan, there was something infinitely tempting in the invite as if I couldn't refuse, as if, even if I tried to refuse the offer I would in some ways later regret it, so, indeed, I felt a keen sense of wishing for him to have sent it to me a week earlier than he originally had, but, instead my wish wasn't granted and I knew I had to wait.
Though my grandma did say that she was thinking of sending me one that week, but she sent it to my sister and she didn't think my grandma sent it. My granny was never the kind of person to send invites to Michigan, so, when my sister read her name on the package she was sort of bewildered.
My grandma actually was offended when she realized my sister wasn't going to accept her offer, that no matter how much she wished her to go to Michigan she was never going to go. I had to console my grandma with the possibility that one of her friends could go instead of her, and she did seem happier after I told her that I would find someone else so my sister didn't hurt her feelings again.
I found an ipod right outside of my house last week. I didn't even recognize it as an ipod at first, at first glance it seemed to resemble something which gave the impression of being an ipod without any of the direct signs of that ipod being present. For this ipod looked alot different than the one I had in my room, I thought the possibility of it being because I purchased it from Japan three years earlier could have been the direct origin of my suspicion that it wasn't an ipod.
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Re: lost my ipad. will someone be able to hack in and see my shit if i have it locked? [Re: drkkenny]
#18999946 - 10/19/13 02:20 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Nothing is "locked" in the hands of the right/wrong person.. There is a simple program that can crack it open in 3 minutes.
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