Saturday, September 13, 2008

iPhone Forensics with Screenshots

iPhone hacker and forensics guru Jonathan Zdziarski has been busy. In his new book, iPhone Forensics, he shows us how to break passcode locks on new and old iPhones, recover deleted voicemail, images, email, and other personal data, discover Google map lookups, inspect the typing cache [!!], and more. 
But wait! There's more! Brian Chen of Wired explains that in a recent webcast, Zdziarski gave us a deeper look into the iPhone's internal workings. Apparently, the Mac Nano, err I mean iPhone takes a screenshot every time the home button is depressed for caching / performance enhancement. And, of course, forensics tools can grab these stray screenshots later. 
At least they need a warrant to get the location data now...  (collective sarcastic sigh). 

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