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iPhone's PIN-Based Security Transparent To Ubuntu
ndogg writes "Security experts found that the iPhone 3GS has very little security, even with a PIN set up. They plugged one into Ubuntu 10.04, and it was automounted with almost all of the iPhone's data exposed. This has been reported to Apple, but the company seems to be having difficulty reproducing the problem."
It is a security problem with Ubuntu and should be fixed by their dev team before they are sued for hacking. Afterall, the iPhone was not meant to be connected to anything other than Apple software.
You two have fun with that.
Clearly Ubuntu is some kind of crazy hacker operating system, and Apple should block their products from working with it.
Critical bug! Product too versatile -- works with non-Apple operating systems.
Would doing that wipe the flash?
It will if you use the Apple-standard soldering iron. Anything else is unsupported.
Breaking into an Apple device: "it just works."
I think that this is just ridiculous and just more evidence that Linux users are nothing but criminals and thieves and open source should just be outlawed. It is this "free" software that engenders this attitude of laissez-faire we can do whatever we like without paying for anything that is the direct cause of security breaches such as this with the iPhone. The fact that open sores can continue to exist despite the hundreds of intellectual thefts in the form of Microsoft's patents, Fraunhofer Institutes patents with the mp3 players, Unix copyright thefts.
Don't you freetards get it? If you want something, you have to pay for it. And 100 dollars for something as great as an OS isn't that much. Look at the great things Bill Gates has done with his Windows money. Furthermore, you can't just steal it and expect to always get away. How are developers supposed to be paid? How is the US economy supposed to grow if its greatest companies like MS, Apple, SCO, Oracle, IBM, etc. are brought down by this communist freeware? If I had my way, you'd all be hunted down and put under the jail.
It's OK, Steve. It's OK. No need to start throwing chairs here.
GLaDOS for President 2016! "Well here we are again. It's always such a pleasure." -- GLaDOS, 2011
You misunderstand, rocket surgeons operate with explosives..
I say we send them to boot camp.
DRM: Terminator crops for your mind!
We certainly will. And thanks again for your support!
The soylentnews experiment has been a dismal failure.
I expected more from Slashdot. Yeah, I know, I must be new here.
That's amazing, I have the same combination on my luggage!
This does squat when your USB comms protocol doesn't request authentication though, since you can pull the data off through the iPhone kernel's transparent decryption layer.
It just works ... even when it shouldn't.
And honestly, how long would it take a computer to bruteforce a 4-digit numeric password???
Forever! There must be like a million possible combinations!
Tequila: It's not just for breakfast anymore!
The i in "iMac" does not stand for the square root of minus one.
All Macs are in the real set.
If I had a magical land, there would be no ASSHOLES, so your post wouldn't be here to reply to.
And you'd just be full of shit.
The "S" stands for "crappy failed security-through-obscurity DRM that absolutely no one actually uses in the real world". It has nothing to do with actual security.