Your honor, I would like to call my next witness… the defendant’s iPhone!
Everything you do on your new iPhone is being stored as a screenshot, which can later be used against you in a court of law.
“When an iPhone user taps the Home button, the window of the application you have opened shrinks and disappears. In order to create that shrinking effect, the iPhone snaps a screenshot” said Jonathan Zdziarski, a iPhone hacker and data-forensics expert.
After the image has been taken it leaves an imprint of data which is never entirely deleted, leaving hackers with too much information.
"There's no way to prevent it," said Zdziarski during a webcast. "I'm kind of divided on it. I hope Apple fixes it because it's a significant privacy leak, but at the same time it's been useful for investigating criminals."
Links:
"IPhone Takes Screenshots of Everything You Do" By Brian X. Chen
http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/09/hacker-says-sec.html
-Monica Sullivan
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Unfortunately, all new products will have glitches such as the one iphone is facing. The downfall of a new product released is that most of the trial and error comes after a product is out in the market. For example, Windows and other softwares have experienced hackers trying to destroy the software. There is an optimistic side to all problems. Take Microsoft Windows for example. For years, hackers have trying tamper with the software and fortunately, Windows consistantly update the programs as soon as a a possible glitch is detected.
I guess email programs and even Windows have been doing this for a while (behaving as potential "spies" for how we use their products), but it still sends a shiver down the spine to think that an iPhone can essentially be a weapon against its own user...
-Raul.
I guess this gives new meaning to that vintage 1960s TV show: "I-Spy"?
- Misako M.
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