Ubuntu Lucid Lynx 10.04 can read your iPhone's secrets
Found on ZDNet on Thursday, 27 May 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.
This data protection flaw exposes music, photos, videos, podcasts, voice recordings, Google safe browsing database, game contents... by in my opinion the quickest compromising read/write access discovered so far, without leaving any track record by the attacker.
There is failing, and there is failing really hard. Apple tops even that one. This reminds me of the "password" in Windows 98 where you just had to press ESC to get to the desktop anyway; or the "password" in MS-Bob which you could reset in case you didn't know it.