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Re:Man steals 620k photos from iCloud accounts from home wit... by threeseed on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @08:05PM (#28296575)
"A lot of heavy lifting"

Also known as a 20 line script which checks the last modified date for a bunch of recently uploaded files and validates the IP address against the recently known list.

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Re:Man steals 620k photos from iCloud accounts from home wit... by brandon272 on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @02:03AM (#28298479)
The code to extract metadata is easy. I’m talking more about whether or not there is a deliberate process in place to actually write the code, run the checks and provide all available metadata and context to law enforcement. Apple has not indicated that process exists, thus far.
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