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blog.wired.com - 9/11/2008

Hacker: Privacy Leak in iPhone Stores Photos of Every Action

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Everything iPhone user have done on their handset has been temporarily stored as a screenshot that hackers or forensics experts could eventually recover, according to a renowned iPhone hacker who exposed the security flaw Thursday in a webcast. While demonstrating how to break the ...

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CrunchGear:  Uh oh - your iPhone keeps pics of everything you do

D' Technology Weblog:  iPhone is watching you! iPhone takes screenshots of everything you do!

Celularis:  El iPhone guarda screenshots de todo lo que hacemos con él

Newlaunches.com:  iPhone hack exposes your activities in 60 seconds

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geekalerts.com - 9/5/2008

iPhone to Control R/C Car (Video)

— geekalerts.com — Tow guys from the Czech Republic, 18 year old Josef Průša and his brother, has come up with a cool way to control an R/C car using the iPhone and its built-in accelerometer. It has five buttons, four of them you can use for traditional ... (more) iPhone to Control R/C Car (Video)

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iphoneworld.ca - 9/12/2008

Your iPhone spies on you, says iPhone hacker

— iphoneworld.ca — iPhoneWorld.ca . .Your iPhone spies on you, says iPhone hacker and programmer Jonathan Zdziarski. Well, it doesn’t do it on purpose, but the device constantly takes screenshots of your display due to certain design decisions on Apple’s ... (more) Your iPhone spies on you, says iPhone hacker

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blog.wired.com - 9/5/2008

Hacker Will Break iPhone Security on Video

— blog.wired.com — After iPhone users discovered a major security flaw exposing their private data, Wired.com published a how-to on securing the iPhone. But yikes -- apparently that's not enough, as a hacker has stepped up to the plate to demonstrate how to break ... (more) Hacker Will Break iPhone Security on Video

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iPhone Snaps and Saves a Recoverable Screengrab With Every Home Button Press [It's Watching]
Gizmodo — ... To the untrained, the cached images disappear after a few seconds, but Zdziarski demonstrated that if you know what you're doing (and you've got over an hour), you can recover the file system and see many, many of these grabs. Gadget Lab is also reporting that Zdziarski said forensics experts have actually used this method to solve serious crimes. You can probably count on two hands the number of people like Zdziarski who actually know how to accomplish this, so it's not like small-time thieves are getting their iPhones scanned regularly. But still, interesting development in ...

Uh oh - your iPhone keeps pics of everything you do
CrunchGear — ... So when you hit that home button, or, I imagine, change pages in Safari, it takes a quick snapshot of it so it can do a nice transition, flip it, zoom it, whatever. Then it deletes it. Yeah… the thing is, though, it doesn’t really delete it. It quick-deletes it without overwriting. And if someone has physical access to your phone and a few minutes to hack the firmware, they can get every screenshot that survives. ...

iPhone is watching you! iPhone takes screenshots of everything you do!
D' Technology Weblog — ... want to trust any of your data to a passcode.” A full recording of the webcast, hosted by O’Reilly, will be available shortly. We’ll post a link as soon as it’s available. Those interested in learning how to break iPhone security can pre-order Zdziarski’s book iPhone Forensics: Recovering Evidence, Personal Data, and Corporate Assets. Source:→ Wired ...

El iPhone guarda screenshots de todo lo que hacemos con él
Celularis — ... Según le explicó a Wired el experto forense Jonathan Zdziarski, esta es un grave problema de seguridad personal del iPhone 3G, ya que también demostró que el código de acceso es vulnerable y que cualquiera que tenga el tiempo, y la sofisticación tecnológica digital adecuada, tiene la capacidad de romper la seguridad del iPhone. ...

iPhone hack exposes your activities in 60 seconds
Newlaunches.com — ... iPhone snaps a screenshot. Therefore, this makes it rather easy to gather evidence against criminals convicted of rape, murder, or drug deals. Although according to design the phone does delete the images, but then data mining experts know that a file once deleted does not actually go anywhere. It takes around 60 seconds to break the iPhone code and can show you everything the user has been doing like snapshots of the sms sent/received, images viewed, websites visited, and the likes. Source