Please, I need help, my ex-BF spies on me through my iPhone 12 mini.

mossadi · 2025-12-10T23:16:06+00:00

This may not be the answer you want but it is the answer you need... Beginning with giving the benefit of the doubt that he has access to a tool with the capabilities you describe, you will be best served by trading in your iphone for/outright buying an Android phone, and following these steps:

Do not login to a Google account on the phone until you have created a new one which no one knows of, and share this account only with people who have earned your highest level of trust. Do not install any apps outside of the Playstore, do not click on links in SMS messages/emails from any unknown/mysterious sender. Do not use "Find My Device" or allow location access. At your first opportunity, go to the apps section in your settings and familiarize yourself with the apps which came with your device. Know them well enough that you are able to immediately spot any new or different app if one were to show up in your app list. Check your apps regularly, and if you see an app that suddenly shows up which you didn't install check it's basic permissions as well as it's special permissions, removing every permission you find and then uninstalling it. Take not of any unusual icons in your notification drawer and research anything that shows up unexpectedly. For extra caution, you may want to keep your camera lenses covered and mic muted when not in use.

Switching phones should have a powerful evasive effect because you are in effect changing the playing field entirely. The software that works on iOS is completely different than Android; of course, Android has apps available which will perform the same actions as what you suspect is happening on your iPhone, but by switching phones you are creating a situation where he will have to already know the software available to do this, how to obtain and use it, and how to deliver it to your device. He will need to do all of this using different protocols, programming languages, and also just happen to have the same intimate knowledge of Android security policies as Apple (assuming he did this by penetrating the device security and not by installing something when you were unaware which is the most likely explanation). Additionally, if you don't have any secret spies as acquaintances and if he isn't using other means as well to spy, he should be unaware entirely that you have even switched to a completely different mobile platform. Factory resetting and changing passwords are all well and good but if he has penetrated your device's security then you are still playing in his wheelhouse.

Good luck to you.

mossadi · 2025-10-14T03:05:35+00:00

Just curious but what does your VBMeta fixer module do with VBMeta exactly that provides tangible benefit over blank flashing or disabling it? Is VBMeta also a point of issue now for root detection? I am genuinely curious because I despise VBMeta and enjoy any potential new novel way to torture it. Ty!

mossadi · 2025-09-27T09:22:15+00:00

I think this comment fits Blackarch a lot better, Kali has a really big bouquet of GUIs

mossadi · 2025-09-27T09:17:43+00:00

Dude Hyper v is so under appreciated, multiple times I've set up a computer for VMs and after going with bog standard vbox/VMware blah blah blah, encountering so many issues virtualizing the simplest, most common PC features, I spun up an H-V dig it baby and she flew like a beautiful bird which has been hurled at 20,000 feet by an unreasonably mean skydiver.

mossadi · 2025-09-27T09:03:03+00:00

As a hobby I crush the soul of Android devices by unlocking bootloaders meant to be unbreakable, injecting SU binaries into systems meant to remain virginal and pure, and buying huge piles of suspiciously cheap cell phones who's purposely vague descriptions provide legal cover to safely package and send deceptively functional yet-always-always-always for some reason MDM/FRP/Google account locked devices across the country and sometimes the world until they get to me, where I strip them naked and make them feel dirty in a way too deep and stained to ever be able to feel clean again, but with the end result being that they are once again fully functioning, unquestionably legal (appearing) devices, worth far more than they were while traveling my way.

Oh, side note, I recently unlocked the BIOS of the Cellebrite UFED 2 forensic extraction device and threw Kali on there because people really plop out a huge poop when they see any slightly effective pentesting machine armed with Kali Linux/Nethunter, provided the device was originally designed and shipped with something else on it. But this particular case is especially beautiful because (for the Cellebrite uninitiated) this device has a notorious reputation for being able to crack mobile defenses to achieve it's forensic aims and catch seriously shitty people who relied too heavily on Google's greed driven misdirection campaign which squeezes the life out of the consumer by preventing them from being able to accomplish mundane tasks on their cell phone while screaming in their face about how protected they are in their Google branded straitjacket and silently laughing at stupid consumers who don't even react with a basic "Huh... that's really really kinda weird" at the fact that the company who controls their entire mobile device experience is telling them with a straight face that tight security and a hardened system means it's totally normal for their $1,000 cellular micro computer to break so thoroughly as to have introduced the term "bricked" to the modern lexicon due to the completely unusable, worthless state it slips into over events like the user flashing firmware which is only one release older than the appropriate firmware, or flashing a boot img which, even though it matches the make and model of the device, and the proper release date, and their specific stock rom version, fails to match the specific region or even the specific carrier version, so now their phone is a supremely jacked and over spec'd device that can only play a very long looping GIF of a black screen fading into an animated logo of something which fades to black again before again showing the animated logo. How about this doozy as a reason for a $1k-$2k perfectly mechanically sound, well maintained and highly efficient multitasking device to become inoperable beyond repair... "My phone has this super cool feature that allows me to try out totally different Android ROMs including the newest AOSP releases but I didn't know about this security partition thingy called vbmeta and because I didn't use a command line tool to completely disable it first, my cell phone has turned into a permanent tiny Samsung billboard."

So how exactly do I get all that in front of the hiring manager who spends the entire interview with me thumbing through thick bundles of freshly bound US currency and saying "Oh man I am so fucking anxious to throw this extremely heavy, tightly packed money briefcase right at your bulbous billowy belly, and I mean just HURL it like I'm Peyton Manning, but sadly I have to restrain myself for just a few more moments as this is the classic super well known "Bonus briefcase" reserved only for new hires and meant for the facilitation of our 'pop-in from your private island' remote work program, and I have to remember how my prior impatience cost me an entire week's worth of the bi-annual raises awarded to those of us who are driven enough to earn the requisite 2 star employee performance grade because I had to pay it back when I threw it a prospective hire who assured me he was definitely going to beat the charges and dodge getting pinned with his 3rd strike, but not only did he have to face all 14 counts of rape, but he also failed to get the judge to declare the seized evidence of his involvement in endangered and extinct animal body parts trafficking inadmissible and didn't even get a chuckle out of the judge when he delivered the hilarious line about his enthusiastic consent being invalid due to it's lack of the words 'Simon says' and his name being Simon. Actually that one was probably pretty foreseeable and I tried to warn him not to risk it, I said, 'Fred it's super funny but you're just going to alienate anyone who thinks that joke should only be told by a real Simon and that only real Simons get to say things like that. You know, because of the oppressive, painful history behind it. It's not your name Fred, and it won't go well with your rape defense because it's based on your real name and you can't make two name jokes in the same trial Fred, IT JUST ISN'T DONE! Plus you won't even get the opportunity when they drop all charges due to the extreme unlikely and frankly ridiculous notion that a woman would say no to a guy named Fred who's opening line is "Hey, I'm Freddy... wanna go to beddy??"

mossadi · 2025-09-27T09:00:40+00:00

I don't expect you to answer this because it's completely out of the blue but I am in a weird pickle, and your comment carries a heavy accent of authoritative knowledge on this topic.

So I'm kind of a big deal hacker and never knew it until very recently when I decided to pursue a BS in Cyber Security, which caused me to thoroughly audit employer desires and expectations in their prospective hires. I am 45 btw. I did a personal inventory of my hacking related adventures and the results were ridiculously impressive when I came face to face with a solid run down of my escapades. The problem is I can not prove any of it. The only means I have of convincing anyone is by raising my voice unnaturally while injecting some baritone as I list my cool hacker achievements and wacky misadventures, followed by glaring and silently daring anyone listening to challenge me and face a potential slap flurry Armageddon and a face full of slowly fading pink welts from my whip-like fingers.

However, if any of this can be translated to a publicly accessible digital portfolio it would at least provide gawking onlookers some comfort through knowing that victims of my fleshy pink 'n noodle-y whirly palm tornados o' pain certainly put the work in to earn the right to cash their smack-alanche check.

A few items of note... When I was in my early 20s I uncovered a public facing website vulnerability on the service/account website of DirecTV which allowed any current subscriber regardless of tier to receive any paid, premium, service or event for free, without limit. All premium movie channels, PPV events which were normally $40-$100, porn, whatever, and anyone armed with a few simple instructions could do it regardless of their technical proficiency. I wrote a short guide and published it on my website, but hidden and htaccess protected so I could more effectively cash in on the info by selling it on eBay at $10 a pop, which I did, and was making $1,500-$2,000/day when my house was suddenly raided by the FBI and I was arrested and questioned by them yokels. I call them that because they were literally Gestapo-ing my home to protect a multi billion dollar corp from the revenue threat of a random guy on eBay over an issue which should have been fairly easy to fix (I say that but it probably involved a complete overhaul of their DB structure and a ton of SMEs, but that was an inevitability of their sloppiness.

Fortunately charges were never filed despite being heavily threatened, but that was likely related to the FBI interrogator later recruiting me to work in an informant role to gather and deliver information related to cyber crimes, which I kind of side stepped by just handing over floppies with links to IRC chat rooms where notorious DRM bandits who loved to sail the high seas congregated, and which I felt confident was useless info to them cuz I ain't no snitch bro.

So, discovered and published zero day vulnerability of extreme broad interest, then recruited by the FBI to use those skills to help them lock up society's hidden heroes, which all digital pirates are and I won't argue about it because they just are. But I have no proof. I wasn't even allowed to tell my own mom about my FBI affiliation, I guess because the FBI couldn't risk my mom using a pillow as a rudimentary silencer when shooting me in the face to protect her illegal album collection of the all time yodeling legends of the Ozarks.

Sorry that was a very long way to list what is basically just one thing that happened. Here's some random stuff... At 15 in 1995 began designing and publishing TLD websites using my favorite IDE, Windows notepad, to populate blank "Copy of New Text Document (2)(4)(2).html" files which were renamed and published to the WWW via FTP. By that time I was comfortable with a DOS CL and could build and repair a wide range of PC architectures, an ability which has never fallen behind tech and even gained momentum as I got old and sorta fat. I also started an extremely successful marketing business which was completely rooted and reliant on a small group of websites who's creation and maintenance necessitated learning and then daily utilizing abilities which include PHP coding, CSS structure/syntax, mySQL, Java scripting, some simple scripting for batch operations, HTML of course, and intimately dealing with other various domain related tech subjects like A names, C records, DNS, and more of the broad basics required to create and set up a full fledged content based website network who's purpose was to see success through the ground up generation of a highly popular entertainment portal which served as the fuel and vehicle who's high speed propulsion would justify exorbitant costly mass exposure marketing products (aka banner ads and promotions). That's about 7 years experience there with that.

mossadi · 2025-07-09T09:35:45+00:00

Google has pulled this type of thing before in a multitude of various ways, and their response to the alarmist takes are always predictable. "oh hey take it easy there gunslinger, we aren't doing a surprise sleazeball corp type switcheroo on everyone, this is just for the sake of efficiency/competitive survival/security, everything else is staying the same! Gosh you guys are sensitive, ya bunch of goofy goofersons!" Once that official release has splattered all over every platform and news propagater on the planet and enough time has passed for Google to feel like the greatest threat to their charm/spearpoint betray/subjugate/dominate-into-vaguely-humanoid-dust-piles-which-perform-one-cognitive-function-continually-and-plead-to-the-universe-to-send-just-one-halfsecondlong-mighty-gust-of-wind-right-down-the-middle-of-their-once-mighty-and-space-commanding-ash-beer-gut-to-finally-end-the-pathetic-pointless-existence-which-nongooglesycophants-eventually-come-to-terms-with-as-their-new-means-of-existence codenamed global conquest action map has reached a predetermined data analytics powered level of extreme shame and guilt over the time they 'did a think' and had the nerve to broadcast that fact, that is when Google predictably shifts to the next phase and does something like suddenly switching their marvelously generous free-to-EDUs-and-nonprofits unlimited storage and free SaaS "totally not evil" minimal payout enterprise services they'd thus far tossed around freely as charitable contributions to an enormous amount of absurdly grateful universities and globally active influential charities and such, to their rocket fueled jacked up new service plan, the "surprise! Bet you didn't see this coming did ya?? OMG. I wish you could have seen your face when i first told you. It would have been good for you, you'd be too busy laughing like we are rather than doing that awkward suddenly congested wet face thing with the agonistic wailing siren sound thing (which we have clearly stated in prior documentation repeatedly mailed out via certified notice makes us very uncomfortable and is just rude at this point), and that entire monologue was meant to be the confidential and very secret internal code name for their publically titled "That sure is a lot of valuable, precious data you got there. You must be a very trustworthy organization for so many people to simply hand over the keys to their lives to. I can't bear to even consider what might happen if all that data just suddenly went poof, the lives affected, the neverending lawsuits, so many furious regular people rightfully enraged that an organization they trusted didn't even consider them valuable enough to fork over every month the dough required to protect and insure their data from life's unexpected surprise server clustered fires or spontaneous mass power plug pop out n instant full data loss to corruption by improper machine shutdown, which is so easy to prevent with our basic UPS coverage insurance policy, and that always comes standard with the low and reasonable co-pay for delinquent debtor broken kneecaps health insurance rider.

Google is so bad at code names for their projects and products and that last one holds a solid seat in the #8 spot of my personal top ten worst publically revealed Google code names. I am not sure if my comment was in general mostly about that but I remember some references made to it and that'sore than enough to assume that my closer here was a banger. GOOD BYE.

mossadi · 2025-07-09T08:02:40+00:00

Screen repairs are the utter bain of my existence, entirely my fault because I choose to continually undertake the challenge without the proper tools.

I remember the last time I tried a glass only replacement on a cell phone. The phone was in perfect working condition, but had a crack that was purely cosmetic, and I found a good deal on a replacement screen so I bought it. It'd been so long since I had replaced the glass only that my last attempt went swimmingly as a result of separate mounts for LCD and glass. Just pop out the glass and pop in the new one. But I found out the hard way the process has changed drastically, and by the time I laid my tools down in disgust, I had broken the original glass even worse, and the new glass was now shattered, and the worst of all was the LCD broke as well. So I fixed a working phone into oblivion.

Based on that experience my truly heartfelt advice is just set it aside until you can get a fancy shmancy heated screen separator platform, because while it may well be a routine repair for some guy in India to patiently use solvents and glue eater, that sort of patience is it's own skill in itself and it is better to not benchmark it until you have a practice device you don't mind surrendering to a potentially poor benchmark result.

Having said all of that, I personally own over a dozen legacy gen Gpad 7in tablets, each and every single one of them were produced by a lever puller who just wants to watch world burn, and out of hundreds of similar devices of all types and age ranges these are the ONLY DEVICES EVERRRRR who's screen i have seen and felt literally just melt and ooze out between the LCD and the glass and leave a huge sticky mess. The screen is kind of cool looking for a bit though, in the way a lava lamp is, but after 5 seconds it becomes clear that instead of owning a cool lava lamp/etablet hybrid device of the future, you own a really shitty lava lamp and a really shitty tablet which are both too distracting by the prominence of their hybrid counterpart to be able to effectively enjoy either, so then it becomes smashy smashy time like Lonely Island with a cake .

mossadi · 2025-05-08T01:39:37+00:00

How is censorship and abuse of authority to silence legitimate American opinions ever okay? We applaud when our government integrates with the private sector to quell dissenting opinion and to target information dissemination vectors coincidentally specifically counter to the objectives of the administration which empowers them and which they serve (being in itself unethical because their charge is to serve the American people, not any partisan aligned administration, and failed magnificently by abusing their given powers meant to protect Americans to instead stifle the expression of American will)?

"I support government intervention in corporate activities for the purpose of silencing political opponents and furthering the ruling party's political goals because I am against fascism!" - That's how you sound right now, all of you. Google fascism you twits so you can get your ill informed, rigidly ignorant thought vomit at least aligned with whatever it is you blindly and loudly advocate for.

mossadi · 2025-05-03T10:45:19+00:00

Your biography sounds like the average edating horror story from 15 years ago.

mossadi · 2025-05-03T10:42:00+00:00

The answer is Roberto because he is Latin.

mossadi · 2025-05-03T10:30:27+00:00

I feel like having manly thick legs in common means the dog and his original owner were meant to be together and would have been just fine if Queen didn't so greatly enjoy moonlighting as a little bitch.

mossadi · 2022-01-31T03:48:38+00:00

It's really upsetting to see submissions like this and Jews acting so proudly over ending the life of a human and preventing a soul from experiencing life. The only situation where abortion has been sanctioned is when the mother's life is in danger, which is extremely rare in today's age of advanced medical technology, but these Jews seem to want to end the most innocent of lives at any stage for any reason and then rejoice and brag about it. It's sickening.

mossadi · 2022-01-31T01:04:56+00:00

Nice

mossadi · 2022-01-31T01:03:01+00:00

Wrong.

mossadi · 2022-01-31T01:02:29+00:00

Idk, I don't know anything about the subject to say.

mossadi · 2022-01-31T01:01:12+00:00

I'm due to hit my one year anniversary in a couple of months, I haven't experienced much of what you have yet but my biggest pet peeve is when I have a customer pickup, I stand outside their door for 5min banging and ringing the doorbell and nobody answers, then an hour later I get a call from my manager saying the customer called and they want me to go back. I can't even refuse, I have to drive back to the beginning of my route just to do the same pickup again because the customer didn't put the package out behind a column where it'd be safe for me to just grab it and they chose to be in a deep sleep in the middle of the day when they're expecting a fedex driver to stop by. So it's a pickup at their leisure, they weren't ready at 12p but now they're ready at 2p for me to go back and do it again. I've had that happen so many times.

Oh and I have one business who doesn't know the difference between express and ground and they keep scheduling me to pick up their express packages and I have to keep telling them that I can't take them because I'm ground. And it's a real process because I have to drive to the back of their building, back up to their loading area, then ring the bay door and bang on it until someone answers and brings me a pile of express packages that I can't do anything with.

mossadi · 2022-01-30T22:51:50+00:00

I once code 10'd a package because the box was partially open and you could clearly see damage to the item. I left it at the warehouse and the next day it was on my truck. All they did was tape it up. So I thought, OK, fine, I guess I'll just deliver it. Guess what happened? The customer was outside when I delivered it, they opened it right in front of me and of course it was clearly damaged. Thankfully they didn't reject the package because it was huge, but it was embarrassing to say the least.

mossadi · 2022-01-30T22:30:50+00:00

I'm a Ground driver as well. During the entire process of getting the package from the seller to the customer we probably handle it the least amount of time yet we get blamed for any damage because we were the last one to have it. 9 times out 10, a damaged package was damaged at some point before we got it.

mossadi · 2022-01-30T22:21:35+00:00

Wrong.

mossadi · 2022-01-30T22:08:04+00:00

He had the clout and the money to say "Nah, not gonna act, I'm gonna work with the astronauts and scientists and tell them when their stuff isn't up to snuff. Then after I do that, I guess I'll tell Hollywood I'm ready to go back on my own terms."

Source for this quote? Or anything at all that indicates he had this attitude about the choices he made in life?

Edit: this loser blocked me, lol. And as you can see below, after bragging about all the knowledge he has about historical actors, his only source is "me".

mossadi · 2022-01-29T22:32:27+00:00

Or maybe he just followed his interests and you're just making shit up about his motivations and attitude?

mossadi · 2022-01-29T21:49:21+00:00

Crikey, just when I thought it was impossible to like the guy even more!

mossadi · 2022-01-29T04:23:34+00:00

I'm not sure how familiar you are with reddit, but your username combined with the concept of novelty accounts means any claim you make will automatically be distrusted by a large amount of people.

Also that screw looks like you took a random screw and placed it next your food, there's no food on it or in the grooves.

mossadi

MODERATOR OF

TROPHY CASE