iPhone's PIN-Based Security Transparent To Ubuntu

ndogg writes "Security experts found that the iPhone 3GS has very little security, even with a PIN set up. They plugged one into Ubuntu 10.04, and it was automounted with almost all of the iPhone's data exposed. This has been reported to Apple, but the company seems to be having difficulty reproducing the problem."

This is not Apple's problem.

[gimmebeer]

It is a security problem with Ubuntu and should be fixed by their dev team before they are sued for hacking. Afterall, the iPhone was not meant to be connected to anything other than Apple software.

Re:Attention Naysayers

[egcagrac0]

You two have fun with that.

Apple vs Linux

[stagg]

Clearly Ubuntu is some kind of crazy hacker operating system, and Apple should block their products from working with it.

Re:Sounds like a feature

[stagg]

Critical bug! Product too versatile -- works with non-Apple operating systems.

Re:Hard drive

[Anonymous Coward]

Would doing that wipe the flash?

It will if you use the Apple-standard soldering iron. Anything else is unsupported.

Re:Sounds like a feature

[greatica]

Breaking into an Apple device: "it just works."

Re:Wow.

[Anonymous Coward]

I think that this is just ridiculous and just more evidence that Linux users are nothing but criminals and thieves and open source should just be outlawed. It is this "free" software that engenders this attitude of laissez-faire we can do whatever we like without paying for anything that is the direct cause of security breaches such as this with the iPhone. The fact that open sores can continue to exist despite the hundreds of intellectual thefts in the form of Microsoft's patents, Fraunhofer Institutes patents with the mp3 players, Unix copyright thefts.

Don't you freetards get it? If you want something, you have to pay for it. And 100 dollars for something as great as an OS isn't that much. Look at the great things Bill Gates has done with his Windows money. Furthermore, you can't just steal it and expect to always get away. How are developers supposed to be paid? How is the US economy supposed to grow if its greatest companies like MS, Apple, SCO, Oracle, IBM, etc. are brought down by this communist freeware? If I had my way, you'd all be hunted down and put under the jail.

Re:Wow.

[VGPowerlord]

It's OK, Steve. It's OK. No need to start throwing chairs here.

Re:Hard drive

[Anonymous Coward]

You misunderstand, rocket surgeons operate with explosives..

Re:Wow.

[spazdor]

I say we send them to boot camp.

Re:Attention Naysayers

[oakgrove]

We certainly will. And thanks again for your support!

Re:PIN != content access control

[Steve Max]

I expected more from Slashdot. Yeah, I know, I must be new here.

Re:Ubuntu feature == exploit?

[suomynonAyletamitlU]

That's amazing, I have the same combination on my luggage!

Re:Sounds like a feature

[Nerdfest]

This does squat when your USB comms protocol doesn't request authentication though, since you can pull the data off through the iPhone kernel's transparent decryption layer.

It just works ... even when it shouldn't.

Re:Sounds like a feature

[Pharmboy]

And honestly, how long would it take a computer to bruteforce a 4-digit numeric password???

Forever! There must be like a million possible combinations!

Re:Who says...

[jo_ham]

The i in "iMac" does not stand for the square root of minus one.

All Macs are in the real set.

Re:Hard drive

[exomondo]

If I had a magical land, there would be no ASSHOLES, so your post wouldn't be here to reply to.

And you'd just be full of shit.

Re:Sounds like a feature

[marcansoft]

The "S" stands for "crappy failed security-through-obscurity DRM that absolutely no one actually uses in the real world". It has nothing to do with actual security.