Tell Me It Ain’t So… Apple iPhone Security Flawed?

By Marc Handelman on July 24th, 2009

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“Ach, du Lieber! iPhone!” News, overnight, of evidence that high design conceptualization, hardware execution excellence, and superb marketing prowess notwithstanding, Apple Inc.(NasdaqGS: AAPL) does not a smart-phone make (at least a smartly encrypted one)… A short snippet of the original post, inclusive of linkage, makes it’s appearance post jump.

From The Register’s Bill Ray :”iPhone security cracked, smacked and broken“

“A researcher has delved into the encryption used to protect content on the iPhone 3GS, only to discover it is “entirely useless” and that he had “[never] seen encryption implemented so poorly before”. Jonathan Zdziarski spent a couple of minutes demonstrating to Wired that he could copy and decrypt secured information from an iPhone. He removed the SIM to disable any remote-wipe procedures – demonstrating a security risk and concluding that “Apple may be technically correct that [the iPhone 3GS] has an encryption piece in it, but it’s entirely useless toward[s] security”….”