Fraunhofer cracks iPhone password in 6 minutes, exposes stored passwords [video]

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Try to do that on a BlackBerry

One year from now, with NFC along with the more important role of security in a smartphone, the adventages of RIMM phones will come to light with their impecable security features.

expecting apple to sell it as a feature

Oh my!

Better stick to Blackberry and Symbian then.

This would NEVER EVER happened to an Android phone. Android is the most Open and Secure platform EVER. I have been told by members of the scientific arm of the Goofan (aka Apple Hater) nation that you would need a super computer working for 100 years to be able to break into an Android phone.

Not too impressed Fraunhofer. A person can drop their wallet on the street and it will take almost as long to carefully sift through all of the crap to find account number and passwords scrawled on tiny notes, let alone the credit cards. Now if you cracked that code while the customer was still using their phone or had in their possession, I would be more impressed. But when you lose something all bets are off. And using jailbeak software? Oooh, how technically savvy. In that case no phone is safe from hackers. Please.

I wonder how many of those companies that have been in the news with claims they’d switch to iPhone from BlackBerry will reevaluate the situation.

Guess it’s time to tell all my friends “told you so.” Thanks Fraunhofer, This is going to be a wonderfully splendid day. Lol – and Apple wants to use NFC on their phones (albeit late, but still).

Would apple be able to fix this problem with the next iOS 4.3 ?

I like this, this is good. Now all Apple needs to do is fix it and trust me they will. Rim claims they have all the security in the world but not to many people have bother trying though and that’s a problem.

This seems to be almost meaningless to most enterprise users interested in having a secure device. I could be wrong, but I’m guessing this device was not secured with a policy requiring entire device encryption. I kind of get the feeling if that had been the case the password information would not have been nearly as easy to retrieve. Also I believe that device encryption is supported on the iPhone 3G(S) onward as well as the iPad and a couple of IPT’s. Perhaps this does show a security hole for non-enterprise security minded everyday consumers however in an enterprise setting with appropriate measures in place I doubt it would be this simple. It’s also important to point out that a jailbreak was required which is designed to defeat iOS’s DEP/NX security model to begin with causing this demonstration, IMO, to be even less relevant. Just a though, and perhaps I am incorrect, but again with appropriate encryption and remote wipe measures in place this is sort of null. Also this is all part of developing a security model, it will eventually be defeated and then improved upon. That’s how security works, it always has worked this way and will continue to. All in all I’m not super impressed by the video.

Step #1 of this is:
You must be stupid enough to give a hacker your phone.

Without that… your passwords are *NOT* at risk at all.

(Only BGR is making it seem like that.)

I love how all the comments of Apple fan boys are just stabs at RIM and other OSs. This has always been the reason why I will not touch an iPhone. I don’t feel like using an OS that takes security as maybe 5th important on their list.

RIM has never been hacked never will be and there is nothing that you can say that can prove that wrong! So suck it up eat the fact that your phone is a joke when it come to security and realize this is what wh have been talking about for years. you just got Owned Apple!

wait until hospitals put their doctors with emr systems on the ipads. That should be fun as your full medical history will now be open.

Umm….. I’ll keep my BlackBerry thanks. If you’re an enterprise customer, you had better think twice about using an iPhone.

For the time being this security issue may save RIM and its tenuous hold on the enterprise market

Try that on Android…. HAHA (Can’t even say it with a straight face)