Keep Safe Using Mobile Tech

Secure Devices and Accounts

Part of keeping yourself safe is knowing who has access to your hardware, accounts, and private messages, either by getting hold of your devices or by finding ways to stick a wedge into your personal hardware or accounts.

This book doesn’t deal with how someone gets your stuff or gets into your personal data—it could be a mugging, burglary, government-scale undetectable physical or data break-ins, or malware, for example. Rather, it’s how you can prepare and respond to such invasions.

In this chapter, you learn about how to set up tracking on your devices and how to deal with a theft. I also cover the Apple-specific feature Lockdown Mode, an option for people to harden their operating systems against attacks by a ...