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Monday, 1 December 2008 20:58 UK Bengaluru, India


 

iPhone passcode is a waste of space

Insecure

By Dave Murray @ Wednesday, August 27, 2008 9:46 PM

 
 

The passcode lock on the iPhone is wide open and can be bypassed with a few finger taps on the iPhone to give an intruder access to sensitive information.

The iPhone allows users set a four-digit pincode to limit access to the device, can be easily, according to ZDNet.

In case you want to exploit the vulnerability, ZDnet tells you how here  .

What is strange is that the bug was fixed by Apple for iPhone v1.1.3 and iPod touch v1.1.3 back in January this year.

For some reason this means that Apple forgot to do the update before the software shipped. X

 
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