Private Data On iOS Devices Not So Private After All

Posted by timothy on Saturday July 26, 2014 @02:24AM from the it's-totally-intuitive dept.

theshowmecanuck (703852) writes with this excerpt from Reuters summarizing the upshot of a talk that Jonathan Zdziarski gave at last weekend's HOPE conference: Personal data including text messages, contact lists and photos can be extracted from iPhones through previously unpublicized techniques by Apple Inc employees, the company acknowledged this week. The same techniques to circumvent backup encryption could be used by law enforcement or others with access to the 'trusted' computers to which the devices have been connected, according to the security expert who prompted Apple's admission. Users are not notified that the services are running and cannot disable them, Zdziarski said. There is no way for iPhone users to know what computers have previously been granted trusted status via the backup process or block future connections. If you'd rather watch and listen, Zdziarski has posted a video showing how it's done.

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Re:it's the future by Anonymous Coward · 2014-07-26 03:41 · Score: 2, Interesting

You got modded down by Apple fans for telling the truth.
BlackBerry... by Rigel47 · 2014-07-26 06:13 · Score: 4, Interesting

and yet /. folk cheer on the demise of BlackBerry.. the one phone that has a near flawless security record.

and yes, full disclosure, I own a z10. I also find it to be the best smart phone I've ever owned with battery life that my android friends can only dream about.