iPhone 3GS maybe the device that gives you endless hours of entertainment but when it comes to security and encryption, it fails miserably. Jonathan Zdziarski, an iPhone developer and a hacker claims that iPhone 3GS encryption is useless and “It’s kind of like storing all your secret messages right next to the secret decoder ring.”
Even there have been many businesses adopting iPhone 3GS as their working device, Zdziarski points out that “it’s just as easy to access a user’s private information on an iPhone 3GS as it was on the previous generation iPhone 3G or first generation iPhone. Live data can be extracted in as little as two minutes, and an entire raw disk image can be made in about 45 minutes.”
There are other risks too, like pressing the Home button or zooming in creates a temporary screenshot and the keyboard cache logs the keystrokes. The keyboard cache can be recovered to identify credit card information, passwords etc.
Zdziarski says app developers should not rely on Apple’s security fully but try to integrate of their own.
[Via Wired]
There is one after the other flaws being told every night.With iphone already being a success in the market. Is it too late?
Live data can be extracted in 2 mins!!!! How crazy is this? I havent heard about this in any of the news paper articles. I’m sure Apple has an answer to this?