Wow. So you're saying having a password on a phone is equivalent to a BIOS-level password? Wouldn't it be a lot more similar to having a password on your windows user name? Come on, get real here. Personally, I'd like to see an addional bios-type password on devices like this, but it just isn't the way things are done. Go ahead. put a bios password on your computer. If I have physical access, I'll just pop the drive out, copy it to another device, and peruse it at me leisure. After putting it back in your PC, you'll never know the difference, as nothing has been changed.
You seem like you're grasping at straws here, trying to equate the fact that someone with phisical access to hardware compares with remotely executable viruses, worms, and trojans that are endemic in the ms-windows world. Give it up. You're not dealing with someone with only passing familiarity with computers and how they operate.
Seem there's no "booting" or "hacking"; it's just plugging the phone in and it appears just like a USB memory stick. All security is bypassed BY THE IPHONE. No need to try to do anything more difficult than insert a cable.
Which is pretty mcuh comparable in 99% of the cases out there with your average PC. Pop a CD in, fire it up, and copy off what you want. As I mentioned before, the miniscule fraction of people who even bother with a bios password are completely subverted by someone with a screwdriver and a little time. The only real defense to someone with physical access to a computer is to completely encrypt your data partition. These days, given the power in your average computer, that is completely feasable, but only the paranoid do that because it is a hassle. Some companies require that kind of thing on laptops these days, but it is, again, the exception, not the rule, and most crypto, as implemented is pretty piss-poor anyway.
Sorry, but the real world refutes the notion that you are trying to make.
Zeugma,
When I PIN lock my phone (an HTC Touch Pro 2) you cannot access the device. And plugging it in to a computer does nothing, until I unlock the device.
So, yeah - for a non-iPhone, a PIN is equivalent to locking down the phone. You cannot easily access it until you enter the PIN.
Kind of how you’d expect a PIN to work; provide basic “can’t peek” security.
I didn’t think this would be so hard to understand; apparently it is, or you just cannot accept that an iPhone has a pretty wide security hole.
Oh, and that “filter” you have? Pretty childish, I’d say. For someone who ranted so hard about the meanspirited Windows people, you’re showing your own evil side quite well... Of course, I am just a GD EVIL LIAR according to a few of the Mac faithful here, for daring point out some security flaws.
I guess toppling idols makes one a target for the jilted worshipers...