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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. And the problem is...? by mikenevans · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I plugged my Windows hard-drive into my Ubuntu box and **surprise** "it was automounted with all of the Windows data exposed." I guess there's no security in Windows either? Hmmm, then I did it with an Ubuntu drive on another Ubuntu machine and it's data was exposed too! The truth is that there's no real security in any device when you have physical access to it unless *all* data is encrypted, which I have yet to find ANY operating system that does that.