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'Version of PIN' for Boris Johnson's old phone may have been found by govt

news.sky.com 'Version of PIN' for Boris Johnson's old phone may have been found by govt

Whitehall officials were known to be trying to securely retrieve messages from the former prime minister's phone after he reportedly forgot the password.

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  • Grifters will grift

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  • Yesterday, one of his allies said: "It is not true that Boris does not remember his PIN number, it is just that he does not have 100% confidence he remembers it.

    Jesus fucking wept

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    • He probably uses the same excuse for everything. Wallpaper donors, the number of kids he has, etc etc.

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    • Which OFC means he will give the pin as one number out. "Look at me, I'm honestly trying".

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  • Mrs Spudger manages a fleet of mobile devices, mostly Apple. She uses an Apple service called Business Manager to administer the devices. Here's a quote from the manual:

    "Reset user passwords

    If users forget their password, you can reset it. Resetting their password allows them to get a new temporary password, at which time they will have to create a new password for their Managed Apple ID."

    In other words, Johnson is talking utter bollocks. He doesn't need to know the password. His best defence is to drop it off a North Sea ferry, in a Rebekah Vardy stylee.

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    • I have no doubt GCHQ can crack the Iphone. Israel had a firm doing this 5 years ago. For apple to reset the PW, the phone would need to be connected online. And because of the content on the device, they would not allow that to happen. Johnson is a lying piece of scum without a doubt, but this is not an option they can use.

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    • This is... kind-of right, but not entirely.

      If the phone was registered with Apple Business Manager or Google Enterprise Management and pushed into an MDM with well-written enrollment policies this is 100% true and is how any self-respecting organisation managed their devices. But you can't enroll devices retroactively, and this is a totally unmanaged personal device that was being used for high-stakes government business without being declared - the sort of thing that you or I would get fired and maybe prosecuted for, but this mop-haired fucking cunt will just shrug off.

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  • The man is physiologically incapable of honesty.

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