369: ‘18-Hour Bombing Mission’, With Marco Arment
The Talk Show With John Gruber
Can't Thieves Crack Six Digit Passcodes on Twitter?
Last week a friend of mine had his iPhone stolen what follows is a secret events that started as an unfortunate event and ended up with $30,000 in unauthorized wired transfers. How could the wrongdoers do all of that in less than five hours after considering many options? The only reasonable explanation is they cracked the six digit passcode on the stolen phone using some kind of device like grey key. It's so much easier to think about the scenario where you just saw the you know shoulder shoulder swipe the shoulder gleaned the guy entering his passcode and then stole his phone and now you've got his passcode.
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