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Hacker Teaches iPhone Forensics To Police
Ponca City, We love you writes "The Mercury News reports that former hacker Jonathan Zdziarski has been tapped by law-enforcement agencies nationwide to teach them just how much information is stored in iPhones — and how to get it. 'These devices are people's companions today,' says Zdziarski. 'They're not mobile phones anymore. They organize people's lives. And if you're doing something criminal, something about it is probably going to go through that phone.' For example, every time an iPhone user closes out of the built-in mapping application, the phone snaps a screenshot and stores it. Savvy law-enforcement agents armed with search warrants can use those snapshots to see if a suspect is lying about whereabouts during a crime."
Haw. If you're gonna rob a bank or burglarize a home, why not do it in style?
Envision a crook trying to scream at the clerk to empty out the register while pausing to say, "Hold up, I gotta take this call..." Or instructing his getaway driver, "Turn left here....um, right here...oh, Mike just broke up with Jen...turn left here, exit 95..."
Compartmentalize, crooks. Compartmentalize.
Say, can I borrow your cell phone tomorrow afternoon? Just for an hour or so.
Crook: "Hold up, I gotta take this call..." *answers*... "Hello? I can't hear you you're breaking up. HELLO?"
Clerk: "You're not holding it right.. here let me show you"
After logging in slashdot still does not take you back to the page you were on. It's been that way for 20 years.
No, I think you mean GNU/Linus Torvalds!
If he doesn't, then he deserves to get caught.
He deserves to get caught in any case, because he's a f*cking criminal.
I don't care if it's 90,000 hectares. That lake was not my doing.