Posted on 01/18/2015 10:43:52 AM PST by smokingfrog
HOUSTON -
A River Oaks man says mysterious photos have begun appearing on his iCloud account, a week after his iPad and other items went missing from his truck.
Randy Schaefer said he awoke Jan. 8 to find his iPad, laptop, checkbooks and cash gone.
He immediately filed a police report but had little else to go on. Then, Jan. 16, while looking at old photos on his phone with his girlfriend, Randy said about a dozen pictures of two men he'd never seen before appeared in his iCloud folder.
he pictures were of two men holding large amounts of cash. Although police have yet to identify anyone as suspects in Schaefer's case, that hasn't stopped him from trying to figure out the identity of the men. He posted the pictures on social media Friday.
"At that point, somebody suggested I post it on Facebook and that led to Reddit," Schaefer said.
He says clues in the photos led him to believe the selfies were taken at a Burger King on Montrose and Westheimer. Schaefer also said one of his missing checkbooks had been found in an alley behind a nearby Starbucks where he had, in the past, connected his iPad to the store's Wi-Fi connection.
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I think, IIRC, the “Find my iPhone/iPad” feature cannot be disabled (even on devices that aren’t password protected) unless one enters one’s Apple ID and password. I had to do this multiple times when I had to reset my iPhone multiple times due to an unrelated issue (iTunes won’t let you “restore to factory defaults” unless you disable “Find my iPhone).
Maybe this has changed (but that would be a step backwards in terms of security) or maybe one can change the settings for Find my iPhone so that one doesn’t have to enter an Apple ID and password. I don’t know.
That’s interesting. I do the same thing but I don’t have any problems with GPS location (the Maps app in the iPad works just like in the iPhone when I have it tethered.)
I use the Bluetooth connection option instead of the wireless hotspot. Maybe that’s the reason. I never could get my iPad to discover the hotspot the iPhone was broadcasting. But the Bluetooth works fine.
First, on the “Find Your iPhone” ... you do have to activate it first, before it’s going to protect your iPhone or iPad. If you don’t activate it, it’s not going to protect your device.
THEN ... once it’s activated ... it does require your Apple ID and Password to deactivate it, when the device gets “locked up” (as in when someone steals it).
The device will be a “permanent brick” and useless if you don’t enter your Apple ID and password (or if you forget it). There is no recovery from this if you forget it. Your device is permanently useless after that!
Apple will NOT ever unlock it for you, unless you actually prove you bought it from Apple or an Apple authorized seller. If you bought it from a neighbor or a relative, Apple will NEVER unlock it for you. The device is permanently useless after that!
I keep seeing this article
Someone should tell the guy to open tbe EXIF file and look for the GPS coordinates.
Then he’ll find out where his littke device is.
It depends on what iPad he has. Some don’t have GPS in them. ALSO, in the settings, even if the iPad has GPS, it can be turned off.
Good news! Thanks for that update.
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Curious about this FTA:
Deputies told Local 2 they found the first man Wednesday evening at Covenant House.
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Sounds like the name of a homeless shelter, or am I wrong?
For homeless or runaway kids. It’s practically around the corner from the Burger King where they filmed the video.
Gee, I wonder where they got the money they are seen with in the selfie.
I just did some testing, but will have to do more when not in range of so many wifi hotspots. I will try my phone hotspot, with both Bluetooth and WIFi. And, I will try a regular access point.
The iPad will find its location if it can hear a hotspot that apple knows about. But, the location is usually not as good. But, if there are a lot of nearby hotspots, it can generate a better position, using something a bit like triangulation.
I haven’t tested it for a long time. Maybe they put it in recently, although my iPad is iOS 7 and my phone is iOS 8.
However, I did just confirm what I found long ago. Bluetooth tethering is horribly slow. But, I have an early iPad, with a old revision of Bluetooth.
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