Meanwhile, I was telling her about how we’d once lost a Garmin Forerunner watch for weeks between the front seat and center console in our Subaru Outback and how our son Tristan’s Apple Watch had similarly disappeared earlier in the year. I had searched the passenger side, and she’d looked on the driver side, but just to be complete, I suggested we switch sides so each had a fresh pair of eyes. So we rushed outside and tore her big SUV apart, looking under the dog rugs and usual detritus that accumulates in a rural vehicle. “Could you have lost it in the car?” I tapped Find My’s Play Sound button but was told that the sound would play once the iPad connected next-had we been at her house instead of mine, it might have worked. “Find My says it’s here at my house,” I told her. It took me a few seconds to realize what that meant since I was expecting either “No location found” or a spot somewhere on the western side of New York State. The other iPad, though, the one we thought might have been near Buffalo, listed my address as its location. It was showing up at her house, as it should. It listed two iPads, and she said one was an older model that her husband used. After she arrived, I opened the Find My app on her iPhone and tapped Devices at the bottom. Monday was already shaping up to be an insanely busy day for me, so I asked her to come over. I was going to have to help her erase her iPad remotely and change passwords to all the accounts she could remember. The whole situation screamed, “Hack me!” Even worse, when I asked, she said that yes, her email address was also written on that piece of paper. In other words, she had left behind a device that could be unlocked trivially, along with a list of all her important passwords. Attaching it to a portable device is a serious mistake, and I’ll be having a chat with another neighbor who reportedly recommended this approach to her. Writing down passwords is far from ideal, but as long as the paper is securely stored, it’s not the end of the world.
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