Ex Machina

On 10/18/2014 at 7:59 AM, BKKdreaming said:

Yes to your accounts.....

but if they did not reset their old iPad before donating it there is no way to find the old owner and get the unlock password

A family tried to get an iPad unlocked in the UK when the Mom died and none of the family knew what it was, Apple refused to unlock it.

I assume it has a Hard drive inside and if you took it apart you could get to the hard drive , that does not help you with iCloud (which I did not want to get into anyway)

Apple devices all have full disk encryption enabled. That means if you get access to the physical memory, it's all gibberish. It's encrypted. Haha. You need the password to decrypt.

Furthermore, anything related to passwords and Face ID unlock and so on is stored in a secure enclave hardware chip.

You can't hack it unless you are the FBI. FBI couldn't unlock it either but they paid some hacking company $1M for a hardware device that can hack the iPhone. Last I heard that no longer works, but where there is a will (and $1M), there is a way.

HEIC is a new image compression format used by Apple - it's more efficient and better quality than JPG.

However, it's not yet widely supported, whereas everything and anything can read/process/write JPG.