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Title: iPhone Data Vulnerability: Access iPhone Data from Linux Computer
Post by: HCK on May 27, 2010, 03:00:14 pm
iPhone Data Vulnerability: Access iPhone Data from Linux Computer
      


Data on an iPhone 3GS is supposed to be encrypted, using “highly secure hardware encryption that enables instantaneous remote wipe.” This encryption, which uses very secure 256-bit AES, is supposed to be unbreakable, at least in normal conditions.
Well, it seems this is not the case. Security researcher Bernd Marienfeldt discovered that this does not work [...]
      

http://blog.intego.com/2010/05/27/iphone-data-vulnerability-access-iphone-data-from-linux-computer/