#phonetheft — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #phonetheft, aggregated by home.social.
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https://www.cyclingeu.com/862828/illegal-e-bikes-are-causing-mayhem-on-britains-roads-thanks-to-this-loophole/ Illegal E-Bikes Are Causing Mayhem On Britain’s Roads – Thanks To This Loophole #Bicycling #BicyclingGreatBritain #BicyclingUK #BicyclingUnitedKingdom #Biking #BikingUK #BikingUnitedKingdom #Cycling #CyclingUk #CyclingUnitedKingdom #EBikeCrash #EBikeCrime #EBikeTheft #EBikes #EScooterCrash #EScooters #ElectricBikes #ElectricScooter #ElectricScooters #iNews #ipaper #News #PhoneTheft #PhoneTheftLondon #TheIPaper #UK #UnitedKingdom
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25 phones stolen during RCB's IPL opener. Police probe CCTV for suspects. https://english.mathrubhumi.com/sports/cricket/25-mobile-phones-stolen-chinnaswamy-stadium-rcb-vs-srh-ipl-2026-gvi92dk0?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #IPL2026 #RCB #ChinnaswamyStadium #BengaluruPolice #PhoneTheft
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25 phones stolen during RCB's IPL opener. Police probe CCTV for suspects. https://english.mathrubhumi.com/sports/cricket/25-mobile-phones-stolen-chinnaswamy-stadium-rcb-vs-srh-ipl-2026-gvi92dk0?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #IPL2026 #RCB #ChinnaswamyStadium #BengaluruPolice #PhoneTheft
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25 phones stolen during RCB's IPL opener. Police probe CCTV for suspects. https://english.mathrubhumi.com/sports/cricket/25-mobile-phones-stolen-chinnaswamy-stadium-rcb-vs-srh-ipl-2026-gvi92dk0?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #IPL2026 #RCB #ChinnaswamyStadium #BengaluruPolice #PhoneTheft
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25 phones stolen during RCB's IPL opener. Police probe CCTV for suspects. https://english.mathrubhumi.com/sports/cricket/25-mobile-phones-stolen-chinnaswamy-stadium-rcb-vs-srh-ipl-2026-gvi92dk0?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #IPL2026 #RCB #ChinnaswamyStadium #BengaluruPolice #PhoneTheft
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https://www.europesays.com/ie/380514/ Gardaí ask Irish phone users to dial five-digit code #Business #Éire #IE #Ireland #LostPhone #MobilePhones #PhoneTheft #StolenPhone
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(One of my bets has come through. (I won nothing for no money was involved.))
Bricking Phones to become UK Government Service!
#PhoneTheft (... but you know that that's not what it's gonna be used for ...)
#BBCRaduo4 #BBCNewsBulletin #BBCNews #Technology #Lebanon #Beirut #Hezbollah #LondonMetropolitanPolice #MI5
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(One of my bets has come through. (I won nothing for no money was involved.))
Bricking Phones to become UK Government Service!
#PhoneTheft (... but you know that that's not what it's gonna be used for ...)
#BBCRaduo4 #BBCNewsBulletin #BBCNews #Technology #Lebanon #Beirut #Hezbollah #LondonMetropolitanPolice #MI5
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(One of my bets has come through. (I won nothing for no money was involved.))
Bricking Phones to become UK Government Service!
#PhoneTheft (... but you know that that's not what it's gonna be used for ...)
#BBCRaduo4 #BBCNewsBulletin #BBCNews #Technology #Lebanon #Beirut #Hezbollah #LondonMetropolitanPolice #MI5
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(One of my bets has come through. (I won nothing for no money was involved.))
Bricking Phones to become UK Government Service!
#PhoneTheft (... but you know that that's not what it's gonna be used for ...)
#BBCRaduo4 #BBCNewsBulletin #BBCNews #Technology #Lebanon #Beirut #Hezbollah #LondonMetropolitanPolice #MI5
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(One of my bets has come through. (I won nothing for no money was involved.))
Bricking Phones to become UK Government Service!
#PhoneTheft (... but you know that that's not what it's gonna be used for ...)
#BBCRaduo4 #BBCNewsBulletin #BBCNews #Technology #Lebanon #Beirut #Hezbollah #LondonMetropolitanPolice #MI5
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#Meanwhile...
#BritishRetailers get another #StateFunded #SurveillanceGroup; #ForFree...!
🧙🎩🤖:wolfparty:🤖🎩🧙 | :PirateBadge: :fediverse:🦹🦄🦹:fediverse: :PirateBadge:
#SomeMoreNotNews #Shoplifting #PhoneTheft #SenseOfProportionControl
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CW: Cambridge crime
Some of Cambridge's bike thieves escalated to phone theft, which finally prompted the police to take action.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn41984gvd2o
#BikeTheft #PhoneTheft #CambridgeUK #UKcrime #CambridgePolice
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CW: Cambridge crime
Some of Cambridge's bike thieves escalated to phone theft, which finally prompted the police to take action.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn41984gvd2o
#BikeTheft #PhoneTheft #CambridgeUK #UKcrime #CambridgePolice
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CW: Cambridge crime
Some of Cambridge's bike thieves escalated to phone theft, which finally prompted the police to take action.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn41984gvd2o
#BikeTheft #PhoneTheft #CambridgeUK #UKcrime #CambridgePolice
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CW: Cambridge crime
Some of Cambridge's bike thieves escalated to phone theft, which finally prompted the police to take action.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn41984gvd2o
#BikeTheft #PhoneTheft #CambridgeUK #UKcrime #CambridgePolice
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CW: Cambridge crime
Some of Cambridge's bike thieves escalated to phone theft, which finally prompted the police to take action.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn41984gvd2o
#BikeTheft #PhoneTheft #CambridgeUK #UKcrime #CambridgePolice
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UK MPs demand Home Secretary call on Apple to make iPhone more resistant to data exfiltration, backdoors, hacking, and third-party repair… https://alecmuffett.com/article/118602 #HomeOffice #PhoneTheft #RightToRepair #backdoor #censorship #encryption #surveillance
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UK MPs demand Home Secretary call on Apple to make iPhone more resistant to data exfiltration, backdoors, hacking, and third-party repair… https://alecmuffett.com/article/118602 #HomeOffice #PhoneTheft #RightToRepair #backdoor #censorship #encryption #surveillance
UK MPs demand Home Secretary c... -
UK MPs demand Home Secretary call on Apple to make iPhone more resistant to data exfiltration, backdoors, hacking, and third-party repair… https://alecmuffett.com/article/118602 #HomeOffice #PhoneTheft #RightToRepair #backdoor #censorship #encryption #surveillance
UK MPs demand Home Secretary c... -
UK MPs demand Home Secretary call on Apple to make iPhone more resistant to data exfiltration, backdoors, hacking, and third-party repair… https://alecmuffett.com/article/118602 #HomeOffice #PhoneTheft #RightToRepair #backdoor #censorship #encryption #surveillance
UK MPs demand Home Secretary c... -
UK MPs demand Home Secretary call on Apple to make iPhone more resistant to data exfiltration, backdoors, hacking, and third-party repair… https://alecmuffett.com/article/118602 #HomeOffice #PhoneTheft #RightToRepair #backdoor #censorship #encryption #surveillance
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UK MPs demand Home Secretary call on Apple to make iPhone more resistant to data exfiltration, backdoors, hacking, and third-party repair…
“Oh, Wait, No, Not like that.”
MPs urge UK government to stop phone theft wave through tech | The Register
https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/25/uk_committee_phone_theft/
#backdoor #censorship #encryption #homeOffice #phoneTheft #rightToRepair #surveillance
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UK MPs demand Home Secretary call on Apple to make iPhone more resistant to data exfiltration, backdoors, hacking, and third-party repair…
“Oh, Wait, No, Not like that.”
MPs urge UK government to stop phone theft wave through tech | The Register
https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/25/uk_committee_phone_theft/
#backdoor #censorship #encryption #homeOffice #phoneTheft #rightToRepair #surveillance
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UK MPs demand Home Secretary call on Apple to make iPhone more resistant to data exfiltration, backdoors, hacking, and third-party repair…
“Oh, Wait, No, Not like that.”
MPs urge UK government to stop phone theft wave through tech | The Register
https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/25/uk_committee_phone_theft/
#backdoor #censorship #encryption #homeOffice #phoneTheft #rightToRepair #surveillance
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Now the dust has settled I would like to strongly condemn @jason_koebler & @josephfcox (& by extension @404mediaco) for misrepresenting the new iPhone “reboot” feature as an Anti-Law-Enforcement measure
I shouldn’t have to spell this out but: Apple does not ship platform features on the grounds that “All Cops Are Bastards”, and fostering that perspective actively harms online security efforts.
Jason should be fully aware of such truth, and even if he is not he has got former Londoner Joseph Cox (only marginally less culpable) available to him who should have provided a parental steering hand, not fuel for the fire.
If I am generous I could hypothesize that the 404 Media coverage of the story has been biased by the way they first encountered it — perhaps also factoring their perception of how best to maximise story impact — but the truth of the matter is: at least in London phone-theft is at epidemic levels, and we should welcome any feature which serves to lock down the data on those phones, WITHOUT trying to frame it as “fuck the man“.
One of the first things that criminals do when they steal a phone is engage aeroplane mode and switch off Bluetooth, which they can do without even unlocking the phone, and this gives them a time window (before the network is used to remotely lock or wipe the device) during which they can attack the device more easily.
It is a fundamental of computer security that all features are dual use so that (yes) password crackers maybe used by systems administrators and hackers alike, and (yes) end-to-end encryption protects secrets for good guys and bad guys alike, and (yes) locking-out criminals looks the same as locking-out forensic specialists.
BUT YOU ARE NOT HELPING THE CAUSE OF BETTER CYBERSECURITY BY FRAMING SUCH NUANCE AS “ACAB”.
The role of journalism is to improve understanding, not to mislead it.
https://bsky.app/profile/jasonkoebler.bsky.social/post/3lai6by2ica23 -
Now the dust has settled I would like to strongly condemn @jason_koebler & @josephfcox (& by extension @404mediaco) for misrepresenting the new iPhone “reboot” feature as an Anti-Law-Enforcement measure
I shouldn’t have to spell this out but: Apple does not ship platform features on the grounds that “All Cops Are Bastards”, and fostering that perspective actively harms online security efforts.
Jason should be fully aware of such truth, and even if he is not he has got former Londoner Joseph Cox (only marginally less culpable) available to him who should have provided a parental steering hand, not fuel for the fire.
If I am generous I could hypothesize that the 404 Media coverage of the story has been biased by the way they first encountered it — perhaps also factoring their perception of how best to maximise story impact — but the truth of the matter is: at least in London phone-theft is at epidemic levels, and we should welcome any feature which serves to lock down the data on those phones, WITHOUT trying to frame it as “fuck the man“.
One of the first things that criminals do when they steal a phone is engage aeroplane mode and switch off Bluetooth, which they can do without even unlocking the phone, and this gives them a time window (before the network is used to remotely lock or wipe the device) during which they can attack the device more easily.
It is a fundamental of computer security that all features are dual use so that (yes) password crackers maybe used by systems administrators and hackers alike, and (yes) end-to-end encryption protects secrets for good guys and bad guys alike, and (yes) locking-out criminals looks the same as locking-out forensic specialists.
BUT YOU ARE NOT HELPING THE CAUSE OF BETTER CYBERSECURITY BY FRAMING SUCH NUANCE AS “ACAB”.
The role of journalism is to improve understanding, not to mislead it.
https://bsky.app/profile/jasonkoebler.bsky.social/post/3lai6by2ica23 -
Now the dust has settled I would like to strongly condemn @jason_koebler & @josephfcox (& by extension @404mediaco) for misrepresenting the new iPhone “reboot” feature as an Anti-Law-Enforcement measure
I shouldn’t have to spell this out but: Apple does not ship platform features on the grounds that “All Cops Are Bastards”, and fostering that perspective actively harms online security efforts.
Jason should be fully aware of such truth, and even if he is not he has got former Londoner Joseph Cox (only marginally less culpable) available to him who should have provided a parental steering hand, not fuel for the fire.
If I am generous I could hypothesize that the 404 Media coverage of the story has been biased by the way they first encountered it — perhaps also factoring their perception of how best to maximise story impact — but the truth of the matter is: at least in London phone-theft is at epidemic levels, and we should welcome any feature which serves to lock down the data on those phones, WITHOUT trying to frame it as “fuck the man“.
One of the first things that criminals do when they steal a phone is engage aeroplane mode and switch off Bluetooth, which they can do without even unlocking the phone, and this gives them a time window (before the network is used to remotely lock or wipe the device) during which they can attack the device more easily.
It is a fundamental of computer security that all features are dual use so that (yes) password crackers maybe used by systems administrators and hackers alike, and (yes) end-to-end encryption protects secrets for good guys and bad guys alike, and (yes) locking-out criminals looks the same as locking-out forensic specialists.
BUT YOU ARE NOT HELPING THE CAUSE OF BETTER CYBERSECURITY BY FRAMING SUCH NUANCE AS “ACAB”.
The role of journalism is to improve understanding, not to mislead it.
https://bsky.app/profile/jasonkoebler.bsky.social/post/3lai6by2ica23 -
Now the dust has settled I would like to strongly condemn @jason_koebler & @josephfcox (& by extension @404mediaco) for misrepresenting the new iPhone “reboot” feature as an Anti-Law-Enforcement measure
I shouldn’t have to spell this out but: Apple does not ship platform features on the grounds that “All Cops Are Bastards”, and fostering that perspective actively harms online security efforts.
Jason should be fully aware of such truth, and even if he is not he has got former Londoner Joseph Cox (only marginally less culpable) available to him who should have provided a parental steering hand, not fuel for the fire.
If I am generous I could hypothesize that the 404 Media coverage of the story has been biased by the way they first encountered it — perhaps also factoring their perception of how best to maximise story impact — but the truth of the matter is: at least in London phone-theft is at epidemic levels, and we should welcome any feature which serves to lock down the data on those phones, WITHOUT trying to frame it as “fuck the man“.
One of the first things that criminals do when they steal a phone is engage aeroplane mode and switch off Bluetooth, which they can do without even unlocking the phone, and this gives them a time window (before the network is used to remotely lock or wipe the device) during which they can attack the device more easily.
It is a fundamental of computer security that all features are dual use so that (yes) password crackers maybe used by systems administrators and hackers alike, and (yes) end-to-end encryption protects secrets for good guys and bad guys alike, and (yes) locking-out criminals looks the same as locking-out forensic specialists.
BUT YOU ARE NOT HELPING THE CAUSE OF BETTER CYBERSECURITY BY FRAMING SUCH NUANCE AS “ACAB”.
The role of journalism is to improve understanding, not to mislead it.
https://bsky.app/profile/jasonkoebler.bsky.social/post/3lai6by2ica23⊞
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Ever wonder how crooks get the credentials to unlock stolen phones? - Enlarge (credit: Getty Images)
A coalition of law-enforcement ... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=2051165 #phishing-as-a-service #phonetheft #lostphone #security #phishing #biz&it
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Ever wonder how crooks get the credentials to unlock stolen phones? - Enlarge (credit: Getty Images)
A coalition of law-enforcement ... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=2051165 #phishing-as-a-service #phonetheft #lostphone #security #phishing #biz&it
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Ever wonder how crooks get the credentials to unlock stolen phones? - Enlarge (credit: Getty Images)
A coalition of law-enforcement ... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=2051165 #phishing-as-a-service #phonetheft #lostphone #security #phishing #biz&it
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Ever wonder how crooks get the credentials to unlock stolen phones? - Enlarge (credit: Getty Images)
A coalition of law-enforcement ... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=2051165 #phishing-as-a-service #phonetheft #lostphone #security #phishing #biz&it
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Ever wonder how crooks get the credentials to unlock stolen phones? - Enlarge (credit: Getty Images)
A coalition of law-enforcement ... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=2051165 #phishing-as-a-service #phonetheft #lostphone #security #phishing #biz&it