Ubuntu Lucid Lynx 10.04 can read your iPhone’s secrets

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
May 28, 2010

“Do you have a PIN code on your iPhone? Well, while that might
protect you from someone making a call or fiddling with your apps,
it doesn’t prevent access to your data … as long as the
person doing the snooping around is using Ubuntu “Lucid Lynx”
10.04.

“Security experts Bernd Marienfeldt and Jim Herbeck discovered
something really interesting when they hooked up a non-jailbroken,
fully up-to-date iPhone 3GS to a PC running Lucid Lynx…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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