Another iPhone Lock Screen Bypass Trick Emerges

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ok....enough with the bashing....first, someone needs to put their dirty little hands on my phone in order to exploit it....that's not going to happen any time soon.
 
[citation][nom]nebun[/nom]ok....enough with the bashing....first, someone needs to put their dirty little hands on my phone in order to exploit it....that's not going to happen any time soon.[/citation]

Famous last words... 🙂
 
[citation][nom]nebun[/nom]ok....enough with the bashing....first, someone needs to put their dirty little hands on my phone in order to exploit it....that's not going to happen any time soon.[/citation]
You don't understand the implications. For instance, if you were to ever be arrested, you can be absolutely certain that your phone will have had attempts to bypass your passcode and/or recovering your personal data from it. Same can be said for TSA checkpoint, or realistically any time that it's a pain in the ass for someone to call a judge up and ask for a quick warrant on the spot. (Which rarely happens)

What happens when they find something on your phone? Well, you might think it nullifies that evidence, and you'd be correct. But what it doesn't do is remove their ability to detain you for probable cause (PC), which can last long enough for a more in-depth warrant. If they find anything suspicious on your phone, whether it's incriminating or not, you suddenly fall within PC in most states, just because your phone as a glaring security flaw.
 
[citation][nom]curnel_D[/nom]You don't understand the implications. For instance, if you were to ever be arrested, you can be absolutely certain that your phone will have had attempts to bypass your passcode and/or recovering your personal data from it. Same can be said for TSA checkpoint, or realistically any time that it's a pain in the ass for someone to call a judge up and ask for a quick warrant on the spot. (Which rarely happens)What happens when they find something on your phone? Well, you might think it nullifies that evidence, and you'd be correct. But what it doesn't do is remove their ability to detain you for probable cause (PC), which can last long enough for a more in-depth warrant. If they find anything suspicious on your phone, whether it's incriminating or not, you suddenly fall within PC in most states, just because your phone as a glaring security flaw.[/citation]

Another scary situation is as it pertains to enterprise, or PHI; a fully encrypted device should not have this easy a bypass.

When touting security as a selling point, you cannot afford to lose customer confidence.
 
Even the similar vulnerabilities found in the S3 are at least difficult to do and I think the same can be said for the previous such flaw in iOS that 6.1.3 fixed. This is just plain easy if you get physical access to the phone such as a police confiscation or a theft.
 
[citation][nom]christarp[/nom]No it wasn't. You can bypass the log in screen on windows 98 through a series of steps as well.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9Jeit6cVaQ[/citation]



Yea but hat was back in... 1998 Laptops were just starting to become popular.
 
I just tried this; when I pop out the sim my phone says no sim card, OK, then I see done, and i'm back at the lock screen..
 
[citation][nom]christarp[/nom]No it wasn't. You can bypass the log in screen on windows 98 through a series of steps as well.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9Jeit6cVaQ[/citation]

Yes I know, that's why I mentioned it. It's a long set of steps by comparison.

There's no excuse for being able to bypass a lock screen like that anymore.
 
And this is only if you have a sim card you have access to to pull out. Most people with Iphones don't have access to the sim card unless they have an unlocked Iphone which the majority of the people don't.

All this bashing just cuz it's an Apple product. Grow up people and get off the Apple Hater bandwagon! Show me one Tech product out there that uses an OS that doesn't have problems, any problems. You can't cuz there is not one. They'll fix this exploit too. Just like Windows does and Android also, with time. That's the way it works.

 
Wasn't the government going to go all apple phones for employees? Seems the don't care about security. Kinda strange...
 
[citation][nom]generalclean[/nom]All this bashing just cuz it's an Apple product. Grow up people and get off the Apple Hater bandwagon![/citation]
You're on Tom's. The news team supplies the bait, the readers take it.
 
As I am not familiar with how iphones work; could someone please enlighten me. As the article is written I "assume" you can make voice operated calls without unlocking the device. Any iphone users care to comment. If you can't voice dial while the screen is locked then how could you use this exploit?
 
[citation][nom]generalclean[/nom]And this is only if you have a sim card you have access to to pull out. Most people with Iphones don't have access to the sim card unless they have an unlocked Iphone which the majority of the people don't. All this bashing just cuz it's an Apple product. Grow up people and get off the Apple Hater bandwagon! Show me one Tech product out there that uses an OS that doesn't have problems, any problems. You can't cuz there is not one. They'll fix this exploit too. Just like Windows does and Android also, with time. That's the way it works.[/citation]
And as an Android user I will add this: My 2 yr old phone is has not been and will not be upgraded to the either Icecream sandwich or Jelly Bean. I won't get the security fixes that Google puts out because Motorola won't update my operating system.
 
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