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Indie writer/researcher hacked HARD; badly need some real Apple "genius"
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<blockquote data-quote="HackedIn!!!Way" data-source="post: 1708984" data-attributes="member: 373894"><p>thanks for replying, Sawday! i listed quite a few problems and the measures i've taken, or at least i tried. what types of other system-change things might it help to know? </p><p></p><p>as for defensive measures, things like changing the modem's security by enabling WEP2 personal encryption, setting up a new admin name and terribly unique password, renaming the network, and hiding it (and for a few days, i should mention, i always had to sign back into wifi once i either turned it off or shut down my computer and such but now it auto-connects all the time), creating a master password on my mac, ensuring the firewall is turned on, that bluetooth is off, restricting all sharing, only allowing MAC app store downloads, not hooking up my phone to my computer after the first wipe and new op system install, requiring admin authorization for everything it seems, never using icloud or any cloud service, setting up a new email account with two-step verification at the apple store on their computers and then using it only as and for each new apple ID. things like enabling restrictions on my iphone so theoretically things like location services (and its features) are turned off, that bluetooth is off, handsoff is off, background app refresh is off, doing the scary fingerprint thing and regularly changing the password on the device, not accessing accounts from it or ensuring as many accounts as possible have two-step verification and that they're all on (or not using those that don't), turning off fitness tracking (they like turning it back on and can because my restrictions no longer apply, apparently), removing a couple suspect recipes despite my phone saying there were none, turning off siri and siri suggestions despite the fact that i didn't enable it after the last two wipes and setting it up as a new phone each time (but they seem to like to turn siri back on all the time, too), safari stuff like blocking cookies, only allowing certain websites, being vigilant about web browsing, enabling fraudulent website warnings, disabling Javascript and so forth, never allowing it to connect to my wifi after the third wipe and second modem, not using my personal hotspot and i'm sure more.</p><p></p><p>thanks. really.</p><p></p><p></p><p>i'm on a '15, 13-inch macbook air with a 1.6 GHz Intel Core i5, running on El Capitan version 10.11.3. </p><p></p><p>and i have an iphone 6, 9.2.1</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HackedIn!!!Way, post: 1708984, member: 373894"] thanks for replying, Sawday! i listed quite a few problems and the measures i've taken, or at least i tried. what types of other system-change things might it help to know? as for defensive measures, things like changing the modem's security by enabling WEP2 personal encryption, setting up a new admin name and terribly unique password, renaming the network, and hiding it (and for a few days, i should mention, i always had to sign back into wifi once i either turned it off or shut down my computer and such but now it auto-connects all the time), creating a master password on my mac, ensuring the firewall is turned on, that bluetooth is off, restricting all sharing, only allowing MAC app store downloads, not hooking up my phone to my computer after the first wipe and new op system install, requiring admin authorization for everything it seems, never using icloud or any cloud service, setting up a new email account with two-step verification at the apple store on their computers and then using it only as and for each new apple ID. things like enabling restrictions on my iphone so theoretically things like location services (and its features) are turned off, that bluetooth is off, handsoff is off, background app refresh is off, doing the scary fingerprint thing and regularly changing the password on the device, not accessing accounts from it or ensuring as many accounts as possible have two-step verification and that they're all on (or not using those that don't), turning off fitness tracking (they like turning it back on and can because my restrictions no longer apply, apparently), removing a couple suspect recipes despite my phone saying there were none, turning off siri and siri suggestions despite the fact that i didn't enable it after the last two wipes and setting it up as a new phone each time (but they seem to like to turn siri back on all the time, too), safari stuff like blocking cookies, only allowing certain websites, being vigilant about web browsing, enabling fraudulent website warnings, disabling Javascript and so forth, never allowing it to connect to my wifi after the third wipe and second modem, not using my personal hotspot and i'm sure more. thanks. really. i'm on a '15, 13-inch macbook air with a 1.6 GHz Intel Core i5, running on El Capitan version 10.11.3. and i have an iphone 6, 9.2.1 [/QUOTE]
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