Posted on 06/03/2020 2:19:03 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Images of stolen iPhones are circulating on Reddit and Twitter TWTR, +8.12%showing a message that warns that the phone has been disabled and is now being tracked. The most viral image shows a device allegedly stolen from a Philadelphia store, with an alert reading: “Please return to Apple Walnut Street. This device has been disabled and is being tracked. Local authorities will be alerted.”
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. MarketWatch reached out to Apple to verify that looted iPhones have been disabled and that the company has begun tracking them. A representative said that Apple doesn’t comment on matters of security, but he confirmed that demo devices taken illegally from Apple stores do bear warning messages like those being shared on social media.
It’s still unclear whether the company is doing this with stolen Apple laptops, tablets and watches, as well, or if someone who returns stolen property to the nearest store will face legal consequences
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Apple protects its products well.
That's Samsung, not Apple.
"Send $5000 immediately to the following account …LOL!Your picture and address _and contact tracing information_ are on file and will be used to make your life hell until the $5000 is received.
Have_Hope you had a_ nice day, _if you don’t pony up_ it will beyour last._quite a while before you have another_ ”Now that is what I call an APP!
But of course you don’t run the company, and Tim Cook does. We’re lucky Apple doesn’t send out free coupons for music and whatever else he might think they’d want.
Someone would have to crack my passcode and get around my biometric signature.
A bricked iPhone/iPad is worthless to a thief.
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