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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.
Critical bug! Product too versatile -- works with non-Apple operating systems.
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
I say we send them to boot camp.
DRM: Terminator crops for your mind!
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.