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Hacker Teaches iPhone Forensics To Police

Posted by samzenpus on from the strange-bedfellows dept.

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."

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  1. VLAGGOT SIGHTING by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  2. Need advice by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Okay I know it sounds gross.. but hear me out first..im 15 btw.

    so my teacher let me sit at her desk cause she's cool like that and i raised my hand first. im on my period (sry TMI i know) and i have a heavy flow. i could feel the blood coming out and i didnt get a chance to change my tampon that day. so i pretended to drop my pencil and i went under the desk and i slipped on a tampon from my purse. i believe in female rights and i support breast feeding in public, etc.. so i dont see a problem with this, as long as no one else sees anything. but as i was taking out the used tampon the guy that i kinda like (who im also friends with) came over to get a sheet of looseleaf and he saw everything. i mean i shaved and everything but he saw blood running down my leg and it smelled fishy. and he told EVERYONE and he wont talk to me and people are saying that im grimy, a whore, unclassy, white trash, etc. and i dont know what to do, advice?

  3. Re:Criminals usually aren't very smart by kainosnous · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The really smart criminals are the politicians. Look at the current administration here in the US. They are the ones who took bribes, stole money and pushed their agendas and crashed the system. Then, they blamed it on the one guy who wasn't (at least not completely) in bed with them, and managed to get elected again to do the exact same things. Then, they ask for more money while convincing the people that we have to "do something" because the last administration (i.e. themselves) messed things up so badly. The people with their hands in the housing market crash have been promoted, and one is now the president.

    Look at the so-called stimulus bill. The first one suckered us out of our money and made us even worse off than we were, but now the tell us they need to do it again. Their reasoning? "We can't just sit here and do nothing" It's pretty cold and immoral, but it does take some smarts, and they do get rich off of us.

    These petty criminals aren't smart. If they were, they would be "Community Organisers" and get a nice salary, excellent benefits, and have a chance at a nice political career. All they have to do is spread some liberal propaganda. If you think I'm making it up, look at Craigslist's "nonprofit sector". They may have be hoaxes, but it's still interesting.

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    There are 10 commandments: 01)Thou shalt love the Lord Thy God 10)Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.Matt22:34-40
  4. Re:iPhone secret screenshots? by PopeRatzo · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Point is: iPhone is doing nothing nefarious, secretive or underhand, as some here would love to imagine.

    That is a much much bigger question than we can discuss right now.

    I tend to believe that walled-gardens actually are "nefarious" in a way that most people don't realize and at a level that they don't understand.

    That's sort of a philosophical question, though and one I'm not prepared to explain at 6:28am on a Sunday morning before I've had coffee.

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