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If a common thief needs to go through the trouble of buying a 3d printer, etc., then I don't think it's as big a deal.

Sure, when it comes to more organized crime or the government they'd be more capable. But at that point if you really want to protect your data then I don't think an iPhone is where you want to be putting that data in the first place..

Or I'm wrong.



Probably right, depends on how much value you can extract from the phone. Just to resell it, probably not. Use the apple wallet from some rich guy, maybe. Getting nude photos of some celeb off a phone you stole is worth a 3d printer easily.


And people faces are 3D scanned every time they have a flight...




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