First of all, I am NOT condoning stealing smart phones or iOS devices, nor am I posting this to assist with that. This is purely informative to make iOS users aware.
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/8xyq8v/how-to-unlock-icloud-stolen-iphone
That was well researched! Thanks for sharing this.
I make no claims to its accuracy nor level of research. It could be a lot of baloney.
I don’t think it is because the attack vectors all make sense. It’s not like they’re describing a spooky secret hacker who bypasses the secure enclave; they’re targeting humans as the weak link and using software to aid that. Does it mean your neighborhood mugger is this smart? Not necessarily, but they have the potential to be which makes it prudent to be just that more circumspect with public phone usage and to ask our phone carriers and Apple to tighten up account recovery security.