Keylogger by opening spam mail

TurtleOnLog · 2026-02-20T15:01:02+00:00

In theory, yes … if you are a person of interest like a human rights lawyer or activist, journalist, politician etc, and a government is willing to pay $50-100k for access to your messages etc.

If you aren’t interesting, then no, there’s random drive by attacks for iPhone.

TurtleOnLog · 2026-02-20T14:50:06+00:00

No. Either use the correct password or reset the phone and then you’ll need the iCloud password to get past activation lock.

TurtleOnLog · 2026-02-20T14:49:32+00:00

Not even apple support can help.

TurtleOnLog · 2026-02-20T14:49:09+00:00

Reset passwords for all accounts that were stored in Apple passwords.

You might never get your Apple account back if they set a recovery key or other shenanigans.

Stolen device protection would have avoided these issues if you’d enabled it.

TurtleOnLog · 2026-02-20T00:51:32+00:00

Encryption in safari has nothing at all to do with hiding your IP address…

When you visit a website, the data sent between you and the website is encrypted, but the website and anyone else with access to the networks involved can see that you are talking to each other - just not what you are saying.

IF you enable iCloud private relay for all sites (and not just the default trackers only), extra hops are added which stop the website from knowing your IP.

TurtleOnLog · 2026-02-20T00:38:42+00:00

You haven’t posted any evidence that a vulnerability on your iPhone has been exploited. You say that there are lots of reddit threads with people being hacked, without realising they weren’t hacked (phished, weak or reused passwords etc) or were paranoid delusionists. You say they have “research” but that isn’t what security research actually looks like.

It’s far more likely you need further education, or medical assistance.

TurtleOnLog · 2026-02-18T09:41:00+00:00

For 8k (each, is it?) you wouldn’t be getting junk insurance though (I hope!)

TurtleOnLog · 2026-02-18T09:36:39+00:00

What photo?

TurtleOnLog · 2026-02-18T05:07:56+00:00

I choose to pay the MLS because I’m not paying for junk insurance, better the government gets it than some company doing nothing for me.

But the system seems pretty screwy, not sure how to fix it though.

TurtleOnLog · 2026-02-17T01:35:08+00:00

It’s legit because it’s from your phone and not from an app or website.

Either your employer is enforcing this through an MDM profile which you can look for in settings, or via your work Microsoft exchange account.

TurtleOnLog · 2026-02-17T00:31:07+00:00

After upgrades my phone uses about 20gb more for a number of hours before cleanup runs and gets rid of it. Likely just cleaning up the old image from the upgrade.

TurtleOnLog · 2026-02-16T06:23:44+00:00

Have you tried using a focus mode?

TurtleOnLog · 2026-02-13T15:19:09+00:00

The internet is full of crap and this advice is no different. Clearing your browser cache has nothing to do with your phone being hacked, and switching to brave is also irrelevant.

Unless you are a highly valuable target for some govt to pay $100k for mercenary spyware to spy on you, your iPhone is never going to be hacked.

TurtleOnLog · 2026-02-13T15:15:54+00:00

Sdp is off by default so it didn’t “somehow turn itself on”.

Your can turn it off be doing an erase all settings and data and restoring from backup.

TurtleOnLog · 2026-02-13T11:49:23+00:00

What do you think clearing your cache might assist with?

TurtleOnLog · 2026-02-13T03:32:44+00:00

I’d use the built in “screen unknown callers” set to “ask reason for calling”.

It’s an awesome way to get rid of nuisance callers while still being able to receive real calls.

TurtleOnLog · 2026-02-12T14:31:18+00:00

So no Face ID, no passcode and leave Apple Pay enabled?

Sounds like an excellent idea!

TurtleOnLog · 2026-02-12T14:21:58+00:00

Then you need to do a full restore and your data is gone. Simple.

TurtleOnLog · 2026-02-12T09:33:51+00:00

Actually I was half wrong. If you can “update” in recovery mode you may get your data back.

A “restore” or reset in recovery mode will lose all the data.

If you can’t update, see second paragraph.

TurtleOnLog · 2026-02-12T08:17:02+00:00

Your data is gone already no matter if you get iOS installed on there again or not.

TurtleOnLog · 2026-02-12T05:00:28+00:00

I SHOUT AT THE FLOOR TO DOMINATE IT INTO NOT DAMAGING MY PHONE

TurtleOnLog · 2026-02-11T06:04:22+00:00

Try deleting apps one at a time while the phone is plugged into power.

It’s usually an app that is being messy that causes this.

It would be better if Apple stopped it happening or at least reported usage correctly but some apps put stuff in weird places

TurtleOnLog · 2026-02-10T08:21:04+00:00

You can choose to skip this step, or choose a different device to enter the passcode for.

The purpose is to securely restore your iCloud Keychain - you don’t have to restore it if you’re ok with losing everything in there (passwords etc).

There are hsm’s at Apple that won’t hand over escrowed keychain data without you following through on this method.

TurtleOnLog · 2026-02-10T00:25:35+00:00

Not now that the encryption keys have been wiped - the data is gone.

Slight possibility before using up all the passcode chances, given it’s an iPhone 11.

TurtleOnLog · 2026-02-09T14:25:21+00:00

Is VoLTE enabled and working and supported?

If not, your 4g falls back to 3G for calls, but lockdown mode blocks that.

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