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iPhone's PIN-Based Security Transparent To Ubuntu

Posted by timothy on from the so-I-hope-you-were-using-pig-latin dept.

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."

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  1. Sounds like a feature by kthreadd · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So the problem is that the memory of the iPhone is mounted and that the data is exposed? I may not understand this exactly but hasn't the argument been for many years now that iPods couldn't be directly mounted like that?

  2. And? by lennier1 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Will their fix consist of actually making the device more secure or will they just try to make it harder use it with Linux systems?

  3. PIN != content access control by Steve+Max · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The GSM standard defines a PIN as an access number for your SIM card. It has nothing to do with your phone's contents. Most phones allow you to set up a security key, which is needed either to turn on the phone every time (even if you have your SIM set up not to need a PIN), or when you change the SIM.

    I don't know if this is actually the same PIN defined by the GSM standard or if it's another, Apple-specific key; but when you're talking about phones, PIN is connected to the SIM, or to the phone line, not to the phone contents.