No one wants an iPhone!
Recently, Jonathan Zdziarski presented an O’Reilly webcast iPhone Forensics: Bypassing the iPhone passcode which demonstrated steps that can be used by law enforcement to bypass the iPhone 3G’s passcode lock by creating a custom firmware bundle. During the webcast Zdziarski explained how the iPhone keeps a snapshot image of your most recent action. He also stated that it could take as little as 60 seconds to break the iPhone’s security. Some of the other methods include taking data from the iPhone’s keyboard cache, Safari cache, Google Maps lookups and so on. Experts and hackers can also recover deleted photos or e-mails from months ago.”
Zdziarski has been a longtime mobile hacker who has played a key role in opening the iPhone’s environment. He has written books on iPhone development and forensics for O’Reilly. He would be organising a 2 day forensic workshop from tomorrow.
Considering these loopholes in iPhone, no one would like to spend on a device that does not promise robust security. Not that everyone has got anything to hide, but there are some things that everyone wants to remain private - always.
