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Can iphone cameras be hacked? My phone took 12 pictures of me getting dressed in my bathroom using the front facing camera. Both of my hands are in the picture doing my hair so there is no way I could have accidentally taken the pictures.
I'd say they're all relevant but then again I try to set aside my bias and actually gather information that may challenge preconceived notions. This will never get anywhere because no matter how much evidence is put in front of you you'll try to deny it or find some reason why it's simply not good enough without ever really contributing anything to support your claims other than other anonymous users of the internet who have spent a little too much time on this help forum.
Fact is the phones can be hacked..if you've seen what I have and what thousands of others report to have experienced maybe you'd consider that. Why else would there be such a focus on security if it wasn't an issue. "Nothing to see here...move along" much?
Those articles don't talk about the FBI paying for the San Bernardino shooter's passcode like you're assuming without reading them it seems..they're refering mostly to the CIA's stockpile of iOS exploits that have been widely published across the internet with the many thousands of pages of documens dumped by wikileaks earlier this year. They were and probably still are all over the internet. Many thousnands of very authentic looking documents and exploits that many journalistics and people with actual credentials have concluded to be legitimate. Now I know that the CIA is tinfoil hat speak..but any rational person would admit that loosing control of the source code for those programs would enable hackers to weaponize them for their own broader purposes. Even ethrecheck (malware/trojan it seems--don't download--not in app store for a reason ppl) guy said that opensource malware was released a year or so ago (this was before wikileaks dump btw) and that the "mac malware has gotten out of control".
Refusing to accept reality doesn't make it any less...please go read through the 1,274 and counting CVE issued Apple and MITRE Corp. that are iOS specific. Again that number is 1,274. That's One Thousand Two Hunder and Seventy Four if that's any clearer.
Many of them are affecting the kernel and other low level functions... Denying reality isn't going to convince anyone and I personally believe, in the long run, that attitude will be prove to be a major challenge for Apple who has been blessed by the false premise that their devices are inherently secure as more and more people realize this simply wasn't or isn't true any longer. I talk to a lot of people about this and have for a while..for the most part people seem to be adjusting their opinion on this topic. Plenty of evidence exists and one would have to have some legitimate credentials to convice anyone that they're experienced in the topic to be trusted as an unbiased resource. Those who have such countless points on this anonymous internet forum we're using make me wonder what their motivation for spending such a large quantity of their finite existance advising those who can't be bothered to call Apple Care about their issue.
I know what I've seen and not being in denial is simply the first of the 5 stages of grief. I'm truly sorry for your loss. Today is September 12, 2017 as a reminder for those whose watch need winding or ntpdate has been corrupted.
More or less. Morris, a graduate researcher, created a concept worm. It was harmless, and he intended that it install itself recursively in computers on the campus computer network. His check for IP addresses had a bug, however, so it spread to all computers connected to the Internet worldwide. It didn't do any harm, but it did overload some networks. And it was the impetus for the cybersecurity act passed by congress.
Nothing is impossible, but its very very unlikely the phone could be hacked to commandeer the camera. And Even if that was the case, unless the phone was positioned to look at you how would they maneuver it into position?
Usually iPhones sit on there backs or fronts covering either camera or pointing them straight up to the ceiling unless you position your phone on its side for some reason, and point the camera at your bathroom?
If you have a pet or mischievous significant other, its possible they activated the camera from the lockscreen. (Yes its happened to me with my cat) and took several pictures.
Hi Phil- Thanks for your response. In this situation I was standing over the camera and pictures were taken up at me while in the bathroom. I wish I could say I had a fun cat that did this but I was in a hotel room..
Hmm, was the Phone unlocked when you put it down?
Was there something on it? Was there a lot of steam in the bathroom? something that could have tapped the screen?
It may have been a digitizer glitch.
Do you keeo your Phone muted? The iPhone camera will make a sound when photos are being taken so you should have know at the time.
Its extremely unlikely it was hacked.
Unless the phone is jailbroken (ie, hacked to allow apps from outside the App Store), there is no known way to hack it and remotely control it in this manner. So it would have to be some kind of hardware issue or inadvertent taps on the screen or volume buttons while in the camera app or something similar causing the problem.
If the phone has been jailbroken, of course, anything is possible. Note that if someone who is very tech-savvy and untrustworthy has had physical access to the phone, they could have jailbroken it and installed something malicious, and you wouldn't know. This is a pretty unlikely scenario, though.
Thanks for the insight. My phone isnt jailbroken so I know that is not related. It could have been unlocked when I set it down. I am not quite sure. Yes, I do keep the phone muted so I did not hear any camera noises.
What can i do in this case?
Delete the pictures and then look at your settings and all of your apps and see if there is anything suspicious and delete it if there is.
What BS! Please provide even ONE reliable report of your assertion.
Lawrence Finch wrote:
What BS! Please provide even ONE reliable report of your assertion.
They never do.
TR, perhaps you should make this a User Tip.
Brilliant analysis.
Thanks for the clarification, Thomas. Very helpful.
krm2012 iPhone (I think) is almost impossible to hack but still it can be hacked.
Can iPhones cameras be hacked?
