It's common to ask for the password and I don't think they'd touch your private files.
After the screen is fixed they'd need to do QA that it works correctly. Some things you just have to trust in life, too much paranoia won't lead you to good places. Trust me, I've been there.
> Legal filings, first reported on by the Telegraph, revealed the unnamed woman sent her iPhone for repair on 14 January 2016 to an Apple-approved repair contractor called Pegatron Technology Service in California. Technicians there then uploaded “extremely personal and private material” to the woman’s Facebook account and other internet locations, the documents said.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/jun/07/apple-set...
> It's common to ask for the password
Haha, good one. I got a chortle combining this attitude with a site called hacker news.
... it was satire, right?
I'd be up for them wiping the phone and I'll restore from backup later. Giving out my password defeats the point of me having a password. Them nudes don't leak themselves.
Not to mention you're on the hook for any any sensitive work stuff or whatever that leaks out, having willingly given the person the keys.
If you fly, you are basically trusting your life to 2 people in the cockpit that you don't know.
How come sharing password for data recovery is too great of a risk and flying is not.
If I fly I assume the pilots don't want to lose their high paying jobs and/or their lives. Min wage can be swapped out for min wage without much of a life disruption.
Also if a flight goes wrong chances are I won't be intact enough to care about the repercussions.
Unfortunately too I've only been on a plane twice in my life, bad example haha (In fairness that's not fear based, just never really been able to afford holidays)
Not like you wouldn't know if something went wrong. You'd literally have a cause for suing them.
Like if I was working at AppleGenius or whatever, this would probably be a routine thing.
How would you recover it if you don't have the expertise?
I also regular give my apartment's keys to maintence workers or landlord.
If something goes missing I'd know who took it
From one angle, I get where you're coming from. In the US people are really defensive for their homes.
Where I live if I behave a bit closed off they'll think I'm growing drugs at home or something sinister like that. So it's a great privilege if you can be super paranoid about things like that.
That's a very very very convoluted attack vector, unless you're very high value target they don't care about you enough to go through that. If apple were that corrupted they'd set a backdoor in all the phones, they wouldn't wait for John Doe to break his screen