[zapttt]

again, i hate apple. but you are being disingenious.

if I replaced your screen with a malicious one that stores images and touches to later steal your pins, i could just wait the low time limit, give it to you and hope you never checks the buried down setting screen.

this way it brings the evil-maid-attack down to zero, as the user have 15 days to see the atack. and the forever-setting is only meant for ppl buying a new device.

[webmobdev]

> again, i hate apple. but you are being disingenious.

> if I replaced your screen with a malicious one that stores images and touches to later steal your pins,

Wow, what an example - and you say I am being disingenuous? /s

How many times has your phone or laptop been hacked by a hardware, when software malware or cracks are so much easier? Are you even aware that all iDevices so far already have a hardware bug which can be more easily exploited to hack those devices?

The simple fact is that I am criticising Apple's "dark design" pattern that leads to a poor user experience (and which is also meant to scare ignorant users to get repairs / replacements done only by Apple at an exorbitant price).

A simple alternative to it is to create a new section in Settings app and display all parts info there. And publicise it. If Apple and Microsoft can spend money publicising "dark mode" as some great feature, they can also spend a little to publicise this new section and educate their users on verifying whether the parts are compatible.