>>16551
If you could bypass it, it wouldn't be very good, would it?

You need to get back in touch with the seller, and have him disown it for you. Given that you purchased it in good faith he should be delighted to do so; if he's not, the threat of small claims court will change his mind.

Your only other option is to phone up Apple's support line, pretend to be him, and get his password reset.

>>16551
If you stole it, it's no good to you. If you're not comfortable handing it into a police station or apple store, take it to a bar and "lose" it. There'll be no evidence you ever had it, and its owner won't have to be without a phone over Christmas.

>>16551
>activated the activation lock

Doesn't work like that, Anon. Using iCloud instantly turns on that lock. You have to sign out, reset from the computer, and sign into iCloud once to erase it.

If you're telling the truth, contact the owner and demand they unlock the phone or you'll open a dispute.

If you're Tyrone, then fuck you and turn it in.

There is no feasible way for a thief to activate a phone with an Activation Lock. There will be no way in the future, either, unless backdoors become a reality.

>>16564
>unless backdoors become a reality.
Won't work. IPSWs need to be signed to activate, so all Apple has to do is stop signing the vulnerable IPSWs.

The 1bl is sufficiently small, and does sufficiently little, that we must assume it's been verified correct mathematically. The last bootloader vulnerability was in the iPhone 4, and the last full bootloader pwn was in the early models of the 3GS.

The iPhone 4 did have a bootloader vulnerability that let you pwn the phone, but it required physical access by a computer, and needed to be repeated every time the phone booted. There was no way to exploit the BL to get it to load an unsigned OS without a PC to tell it to.

>>16551
Stick to stealing Apple computers, you worthless cur.

At least you can bypass the EFI lock on those.

https://www.ghostlyhaks.com/blog/blog/hacking/18-how-to-bypass-apple-efi-firmware-lock

>>16578
That's pretty amateurish.

You can't steal a Thinkpad like that.

>>16586
>That's pretty amateurish.
Why is that again? Would you point us to a more "professional" solution then?

>You can't steal a Thinkpad like that.
You could swap out the mainboard for a Thinkpad without discarding the CPU, GPU, or RAM, so it's less of an issue and there's not much incentive to develop such an exploit.

>>16593
>>16593
>Why is that again?
Because it lets some butthole with a $5 computer walk off with your $1200 computer
>Would you point us to a more "professional" solution then?
Sure. On an iPhone, the unique serial number and private key are blown into the CPU. You can't change them ever. Apple, and only Apple, has the public key.

Its hard disk is whole-disk encrypted, with a key derived from the public key, itself encrypted using the user's passcode. That's derived from the public key, not derived from the private key.

When an iPhone is reported stolen, it's blacklisted on Apple's servers, and the next time it connects to the Internet, it deletes the derived key it needs to decrypt its own hard disk. As no-one but Apple has the public key, no-one but Apple can issue a new session key, so nobody can decrypt the disk without Apple's help.

If you wipe the iPhone, it needs to have its disk re-signed before it can boot. This is commonly known as "activating" the iPhone. Apple will not activate a stolen iPhone unless you have the credentials to the account it's registered to.

The CPU and TouchID have a pre-shared key. There's no way to extract this key, so the TouchID sensor is permanently paired with the CPU.

Separately, the baseband processor that handles being-a-phone has a unique IMEI, which can be used to ban it from every mobile operator in the world.

This means that, absent the credentials of the real owner, the only usable parts of a stolen iPhone are the chassis, the screen, the battery, and a few miscellaneous ICs on the motherboard. All of these parts have third-party knockoffs from HK that the prospective stripper would have to compete with on price.

tl;dr: stolen iPhone gives up no data and no valuable parts. That's what a professional antitheft solution looks like.

Is there a way out ?

>>16551

give it back, tyrone

>>16645

key you know your shit, color me impressed

>>16577
>>16766

Y'never know, goy. If a metaphorical gun's to Apple's head to make one exist, it would happen. I give Cook credit though, it's an incredibly smart business decision in terms of image. Would not happen if Jobs was running it. Spoiler: it's because Cook was closeted.

Good info regardless, thanks for posting on /wsr/ of all places.

>>11111

Give it back, Jamal