[PugetSoundSoldier]

Most interesting. The PIN does lock your phone, unless you happen to plug it in to a computer running the latest release of Ubuntu. Then it's just wide-open, for you to copy all the data off as you desire, and crunch through it later.

Pretty major security hole, especially for any business users who require confidentiality/security.

[PugetSoundSoldier]

Ping!

[P8riot]

Any Android vulnerabilities?

[for-q-clinton]

Man this has to stop. If this keeps up Apple may be seen as not secure.

We can’t have that now can we. Maybe if they were a little less successful in sales then this exploit wouldn’t have been made widely known. You know like the Mac security.

[dangerdoc]

bump

[End Times Sentinel]

Uh... yeah. I look at porn most of the day on my iphone. I've got a lot of the sites listed under fake names in my Favorites>Blogs folder.

What's so secret about that?

[brent13a]

So someone would have to steal my phone and then physically connect it to a computer running a specific version of Ubuntu Linux.....OK, is that a security hole? Yes. Will it affect anyone? 99.999% chance that it will affect absolutely no one. Moving on.

[AFreeBird]

Physical access required. For an iPhone user this could be useful. For someone that loses their phone, bad.

[AFreeBird]

Physical access required. For an iPhone user this could be useful. For someone that loses their phone, bad.

[rahbert]

what does jail-broken mean exactly..?

[rlmorel]

If you give physical access to nearly ANY computer, it can be hacked.

[for-q-clinton]

tech ping please

[dangerdoc]

It just occurred to me, if you can just plug it in and read, you could just as easily write. Is the iPhone acting as a dumb drive? Could someone replace critical files with modified versions giving them live access any time they wanted?

[GOPJ]

Security experts Bernd Marienfeldt and Jim Herbeck discovered something really interesting when they hooked up a non-jailbroken, fully up-to-date iPhone 3GS to a PC running Lucid Lynx …

ping

[ShadowAce]

[zeugma]

So, are you saying then, that a windows (or Linux, or OSX computer for that matter) has a security hole if you can boot off a CD and access the data from the hard disk?

Everyone involved in computer security knows that once someone has physical access, unless all data on the device is fully encrypted, that it is vulnerable. I'm sorry, but this particular "vulnerability" is fairly lame.

[LearnsFromMistakes]

cj ping

[tacticalogic]

Pretty major security hole, especially for any business users who require confidentiality/security.

Yes, is. Any business that handles confidential information like credit card numbers, ss numbers, bank account numbers, or medical information should be concerned about this. If the company deals in and uses that kind of information there's a good change some of it is going to be included in or attached to emails. If they've got an iPhone and sych it with their company email system then that information can be had by anyone who can get their hands on that phone for just a few minutes, and there's no audit trail that records the fact the data was accessed.

Biggle podslurping.

[Swordmaker]

Month old article claims Linux distribution can read iPhone files despite setting PIN—PING!

I suggest reading the article and ignoring the TROLLS.

DO NOT RESPOND TO ANY TROLLISH BEHAVIOR IN THE THREAD. THERE IS A LOT OF IT ALREADY.

You will recognize the names of the trolls

Give them wide berth, and let them have their fun talking among themselves.

Apple iPhone Ping!

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[CAluvdubya]

bkmrk for later