{"id":2494,"date":"2013-09-20T15:31:31","date_gmt":"2013-09-20T15:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clydelettsome.com\/blog\/?p=2494"},"modified":"2019-05-07T18:37:27","modified_gmt":"2019-05-07T18:37:27","slug":"despite-flaw-with-ios7-use-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clydelettsome.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/20\/despite-flaw-with-ios7-use-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Despite Flaw With iPhone&#8217;s iOS7, Use It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/clydelettsome.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/iphone.jpg\" alt=\"iphone\" width=\"100\" height=\"210\" \/>After feeling the pressure from law enforcement officials from many municipalities, Apple became the first major cell phone manufacturer to incorporate an anti-theft function (activation lock) in its operating system (OS). You may remember that I commented on the cell phone manufacturers and wireless providers resistance to help reduce cell phone theft (<a href=\"https:\/\/clydelettsome.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/23\/opinion-why-won%E2%80%99t-wireless-companies-help-stop-cell-phone-thefts\/\" target=\"_blank\">Opinion: Why Won\u2019t Wireless Companies Help Stop Cell Phone Thefts<\/a>). Well kudos to Apple for leading the way and doing the right thing.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the great news, there is a <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/big-ios-7-security-flaw-could-prevent-people-150527537.html\" target=\"_blank\">flaw with iOS7 implementation<\/a> that makes it easy to disable &#8220;Find My iPhone&#8221;. However, if a criminal thinks your iPhone will be nothing more than a paper weight; this may be enough to prevent the theft anyway.\u00a0 It seems that many law enforcement officials agree and are <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Technology\/story?id=20298411\" target=\"_blank\">suggesting that iPhone owners download iOS7 and use the activation lock feature<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After feeling the pressure from law enforcement officials from many municipalities, Apple became the first major cell phone manufacturer to incorporate an anti-theft function (activation lock) in its operating system (OS). You may remember that I commented on the cell phone manufacturers and wireless providers resistance to help reduce cell phone theft (Opinion: Why Won\u2019t &hellip; <\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/clydelettsome.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/20\/despite-flaw-with-ios7-use-it\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Despite Flaw With iPhone&#8217;s iOS7, Use It&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2500,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,23],"tags":[387,100,39,145,77],"class_list":{"0":"post-2494","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-articles","8":"category-consumer","9":"tag-activation-lock","10":"tag-apple","11":"tag-cell-phone","12":"tag-iphone","13":"tag-safety","14":"h-entry","15":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clydelettsome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clydelettsome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clydelettsome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clydelettsome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clydelettsome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2494"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/clydelettsome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5263,"href":"https:\/\/clydelettsome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2494\/revisions\/5263"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clydelettsome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clydelettsome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clydelettsome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clydelettsome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}