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iPhone Snaps and Saves a Recoverable Screengrab With Every Home Button Press [It's Watching]
Gizmodo —
So said Jonathan Zdziarski in his O'Reilly webcast today, in which he also demoed a way around the iPhone passcode lock, as promised. To achieve that zoomy minimizing effect everytime you press the home button (ie, every time you finish reading your text messages, emails, web history, contacts—think how many times you press that button), the system takes a full-screen grab and caches it. Which, if you're up to some naughtiness (or your phone gets stolen), isn't something you necessarily want to happen. To the untrained, the cached images disappear after a ...
Wired: 'iPhone takes screenshots of everything you do'
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) —
... too.
In his presentation, Zdziarski also demonstrated how to bypass an iPhone's passcode in order to own the device and access personal data. Time-consuming? Sure (it took JZ about an hour and involved a custom firmware build). Impossible? No.
As with all things digital (and networked), your privacy is largely illusory. Time to go Don Draper on this one and just use Field Notes books, my stack of business cards, and the rotary dial.
[Via Wired.]
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Smile, you’re on candid iPhone
iPhone News Feeds —
... **UPDATE: Adding link to Wired blog.** Well, you aren't, but your screen is ... according to Jonathan Zdziarski, who does a webcast for O'Reilly and happens to be pretty darn good at understand this kind of advanced stuff, your iPhone takes a screengrab every single time you press the home button. Right. Exactly what you are thinking. Zdziarski is saying that every time you finish sending a text and press the button to get back to the screen, the iPhone snaps a photo. Press it again and there's another one. And another. It's like a personal paparazzi inside your iPhone, ...
Everyone, Hide Your iPhones!
Mac|Life all RSS Feed —
[image] Apparently, your iPhone is keeping tabs on everything you do. Anytime you do anything on your handset, it takes a picture of the aforementioned action and caches it (this is for purely aesthetic reasons, because of the way an applications shrinks and disappears). There is some controversy regarding this particular function within the iPhone’s software. Is the image of the screen really deleted from the cache? Or is there really a way to retrieve those screenshots and extract sensitive information, such as passwords or old instant messaging conversations? Jonathan ...
Shhhhhhh, Your iPhone is Watching Your Every Move
MacBlogz - One Stop Apple News —
... issues have come up surrounding the iPhone’s home button. Back on August 27th a major security flaw was exposed where a malicious user could access an iPhone’s sensitive information, by double clicking the home button from anywhere. Luckily, at the Let’s Rock Media Event Apple CEO Steve Jobs promised a major iPhone Software Update and yesterday, it landed. One of the fixes delivered was was a patch to the security flaw just explained.
[via Wired]
Your iPhone is spying you!
iSmashPhone —
... 'data recovery experts' do.
"Despite the intricacy of the method, Zdziarski stressed that anybody with the time and digital sophistication has the ability to break the iPhone's security."
"This flaw can only be exploited by somebody with physical access to a device, but your phone could get into the hands of someone with more malicious intent," he said. "Obviously, you don't want to trust any of your data to a passcode."
[ via Wired.com] ...
