Apparently, your iPhone is keeping tabs on everything you do. Anytime you do anything on your handset, it takes a picture of the aforementioned action and caches it (this is for purely aesthetic reasons, because of the way an applications shrinks and disappears).
There is some controversy regarding this particular function within the iPhone’s software. Is the image of the screen really deleted from the cache? Or is there really a way to retrieve those screenshots and extract sensitive information, such as passwords or old instant messaging conversations?
Jonathan Zdziarski, iPhone data expert, showed the internet how it could take as little as 60 seconds to break the iPhone’s security. He used the Pwnage tool to create his own firmware bundle and manipulated the iPhone’s passcode protection to reveal the password instead of keeping it safely discrete behind dots.
Zdziarski stressed that since it’s so easy to obtain the screenshot photos, anyone with at least a little software knowledge could break the iPhone’s security. This is a rather unnerving concept, especially if an iPhone were to be stolen or left behind in a public place.
We should also note that Zdziarski wrote a book on how to break the iPhone’s security barrier. So, in essence, we’re all screwed. Hopefully Masterlock releases a lock for the iPhone sometime soon.
ammys
October 20, 2008 at 1:07am
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ScottB
September 13, 2008 at 7:44am
"This flaw can only be exploited by somebody with physical access to a device, but your phone could get into the hands of someone with more malicious intent," Jonathan Zdziarski said. "Obviously, you don't want to trust any of your data to a passcode."
I think that should change the tenor of the story.
yensid
September 12, 2008 at 3:07pm
Until this software hack becomes widely available, I'm not worried. One guy figured it out. Apple has time to fix this before there will be any trouble from this exploit.
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