I don’t think iPhone thieves are smart enough to connect a snatched phone’s owner’s identity to a location nor are they stupid enough to regularly go to a frequent location to unlock a stolen device. In practice, a change like this will help a lot. Most stolen phones get put into the Shenzhen parts supply chain, and it’s probably not economical for the middlemen to do bespoke work to unlock the device.
Oh how very wrong you are. This feature came in response to WSJ reporting about iPhone thieves, targeting affluent iPhone users so they could steal their iPhones and rapidly lock the owner out. All while accessing their bank accounts, credit cards etc.
What does that have to do with my comment which was about whether those thieves are willing to locate the owner’s frequently visited addresses, visit them, and then repeat this process at scale.
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I don’t think iPhone thieves are smart enough to connect a snatched phone’s owner’s identity to a location nor are they stupid enough to regularly go to a frequent location to unlock a stolen device. In practice, a change like this will help a lot. Most stolen phones get put into the Shenzhen parts supply chain, and it’s probably not economical for the middlemen to do bespoke work to unlock the device.
Oh how very wrong you are. This feature came in response to WSJ reporting about iPhone thieves, targeting affluent iPhone users so they could steal their iPhones and rapidly lock the owner out. All while accessing their bank accounts, credit cards etc.
What does that have to do with my comment which was about whether those thieves are willing to locate the owner’s frequently visited addresses, visit them, and then repeat this process at scale.