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Malware Could Grab Data From Stock iPhones

Posted by timothy on from the swamp-of-bog-standard dept.

Ardisson writes "Swiss iPhone developer Nicolas Seriot presented last night a talk on iPhone Privacy in Geneva. He showed how a malicious application could harvest personal data on a non-jailbroken iPhone (PDF) and without using private APIs. It turns out that the email accounts, the keyboard cache content and the WiFi connection logs are fully accessible. The talk puts up several recommendations. There is also a demo project on github."

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  1. Obiwan iPhonebi by bobdotorg · · Score: 4, Funny

    I felt a great disturbance in the Smug, as if millions of fanboys suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.

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    1. Re:Obiwan iPhonebi by farlukar · · Score: 5, Funny

      I felt a great disturbance in the Smug, as if millions of fanboys suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.

      Don't be daft.. Nothing can silence fanboys.

      Even the exploits just work!

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    2. Re:Obiwan iPhonebi by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Don't you mean the Shiny side of the force?

  2. Re:This isn't any different from any other compute by timmarhy · · Score: 4, Funny

    so apple products aren't secure. could have fooled me with the mind set around here.

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  3. Who uses Stock iPhones anymore? by redstar427 · · Score: 4, Funny

    This baby is overclocked and water cooled, running at 2.3 Ghz!
    It's so fast when talking on the phone, my friends sound like Alvin and the Chipmunks.

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