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If you thought getting access to your phone’s dialler, contacts, and even photos was bad enough from a supposedly secure, locked iPhone, how about access to everything on the device? Yeah, things just got even worse for Apple’s steaming pile of iOS 6.1.
Essentially this is an extension of the previous iOS 6.1 lockscreen bypass, which allows you to go further and hook up a locked iPhone or iPad to a computer, letting you dump everything into iTunes and access the camera roll as a removable device.
Now, it’s probably not something you or I should be worried about, but the big thing is you can do this all without a trace. Imagine if someone stored company, or even country secrets on their iPhone — I know it’s crazy, but you just know someone does — spies could pinch it all, no issue.
Come on Apple. This is simply not good enough. If you want to be the phone for business as well as pleasure, you’ve got to secure this stuff up tight. Just look at, errr, BlackBerry. [Forbes]
I think I’d be more worried if spies couldn’t get the information off my iPhone without having to resort to security flaws.
Hackers, spies, etc. would always choose security flaws over brute force if the former exist. Brute force will overcome any form of security if you have enough of it, but why take the hard route when there’s a easier way around?
Fair point.
I should have put my comment in tags really
Ok, the comments system just removed the tag I’d added to my post and ruined a perfectly good joke.
“Now, it’s probably not something you or I should be worried about” – I’m certainly not Sam (for obvious reason), but I think you have an iPhone, so maybe you should. Either way 6.1 is not turning out to be Apple’s finest moment is it.