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I can't sleep after this shit... Claude Code just found 12,154 photos of my face on the old Android I used for 8 years. I never took a single one of them. The front camera was firing almost every time I picked the phone up. In bed, on the train, in the car, or when I just grabbed it to check the time. They were real camera frames sitting in a hidden folder, each one with a timestamp and a location. None of them were in the Gallery or in Recently Deleted. I plugged the phone into my laptop, turned on ADB and told Claude Code to look for front-camera files that weren't in my photos. It pulled a folder inside Android/data that belonged to a flashlight app I installed in 2019 and completely forgot about. 12,154 files. I started scrolling. Almost all of it was from the last 15 months. Then I saw a file created 2 seconds ago, while I was still looking at the folder. The phone kept taking photos of me as I was reading this. On Android 8 any app with camera permission can shoot in the background, and you get no green dot or any other warning when it does. That flashlight app had camera and location access from day one. I uninstalled it, took camera access away from everything that doesn't need it and cleared the folder. How many of these photos already went somewhere else, I don't know. If you want to check yours, plug it in, turn on USB debugging and ask Claude Code to find front-camera files outside your Gallery and show which apps used the camera and when.

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You can get back every photo you ever "permanently deleted" from your iPhone. Claude is a f*cking treasure... Claude Code found years of them sitting in a hidden folder on my laptop. I plugged my iPhone into my laptop to run a backup. I had Claude Code doing a security check at the same time, and it flagged something I wasn't looking for: a directory called PhotoData/Thumbnails, inside my old iPhone backups. Thousands of files. Photos, videos, screenshots, and a lot of them were things I had deleted. Photos from a couple of years ago. Screenshots I took and deleted a few seconds later. Stuff I went into Recently Deleted and cleared. Some of it was still sitting there. What I found in there: - old screenshots of banking apps - photos I deleted right after taking them - random pictures I didn't want on my phone anymore - a few things I specifically remember deleting more than once Every time you back up your iPhone to a computer, it saves a full copy of your camera roll, thumbnails included. When you delete a photo on the phone later, that copy stays on the computer. Mine went back years, and none of the backups were encrypted. I checked which apps on my Mac had Full Disk Access. There were more than I expected, including apps I downloaded a long time ago and forgot about. Any of them could open an unencrypted backup. I deleted the old backups, turned on "Encrypt local backup" and removed access from most of those apps. The prompt I used is below. It doesn't take long if you already have a backup. How many apps on your laptop have Full Disk Access right now?

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Claude Opus 5.5 + REA found every photo I "permanently deleted" from my iPhone. they were hidden on my phone and my laptop the whole time. i plugged my iPhone into my laptop to run a backup and asked Claude Code to do a quick security check while it ran. it came back with something i wasn't looking for at all. first, the phone. every photo i had ever sent in iMessage, WhatsApp and Telegram was still there, hidden inside the chats. it doesn't show up in your gallery, so you think it's gone. i deleted those photos from my camera roll years ago. the copies in the conversations never went anywhere, and some of my chats go back to 2020. then the laptop. a hidden folder inside AppData called MobileSync\Backup. Windows hides AppData by default, so i had never seen it. inside were five old iPhone backups, the oldest from 2021, none of them encrypted. each one is a full copy of my camera roll on the day i made it. so every photo i deleted after that day was still sitting there, sorted by date. here's what Claude pulled out: a photo of my passport from a 2023 visa application screenshots of my bank app with the full account number visible private photos i sent someone and deleted right after the breakup a screenshot of my crypto seed phrase i took "just for a minute" in 2022 a photo of my ID and card that i took to remember the numbers and deleted 5 seconds later screenshots of my ex's private stories i saved in 2023 183,406 files in total, a lot of them full resolution. then i asked it to keep going. in about 4 minutes it gave me a full report: every backup with its date, size and how many photos and videos were inside, which ones were unencrypted, and a list of every program on my laptop i hadn't opened in over 6 months. that list was the scary part. just because you can't see a folder doesn't mean programs can't. any program running on the laptop can open an unencrypted backup, and i had two "PC cleaners", a free video converter, an old VPN and a game launcher i don't remember installing. so i plugged REA (Reverse Engineer Anything) into Claude Code and had it take those 5 programs apart. it showed me what each one actually reads on disk. one of the "PC cleaners" walks through the whole AppData folder on every launch, MobileSync included. that means it had access to every one of those backups for 2 years. and on the phone, 23 apps had Full Access to my photo library, meaning every photo, not just the ones i choose. weather apps, a QR scanner, a flashlight app from 2022. what i did, about 5 minutes total: 1. open iTunes or the Apple Devices app → your iPhone → Manage Backups → delete the old ones 2. tick "Encrypt local backup" so the next one is locked with a password 3. uninstall everything on Claude's "not opened in 6 months" list, starting with anything REA caught reading AppData 4. iPhone: Settings → Privacy & Security → Photos → move apps from Full Access to Limited or None 5. iPhone: Settings → General → iPhone Storage → Messages → Review Large Attachments, and clear the photos you don't want kept 6. go through old chats in WhatsApp and Telegram too, their media stays even after you delete it from the gallery here's how to run the same check yourself. for Claude Code: "find every iPhone backup on this computer, including hidden folders like AppData. for each one tell me the date, the size, how many photos and videos are inside, and whether it's encrypted. then list every installed program i haven't opened in the last 6 months. don't delete or change anything, just give me the report." for REA, install it with npx rea-agents setup, then ask Claude: "use REA to analyze every program on that list. tell me which ones read files inside AppData, and whether any of them touch the MobileSync folder." i went from 23 apps with full access to my photos to 3. send this to anyone who's ever plugged their iPhone into a laptop.

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