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I know that the iPhones are notoriously bad at securing data when the device is on, but what about the remote wipe option? It's my understanding that 3GS and 4

I know that the iPhones are notoriously bad at securing data when the device is on, but what about the remote wipe option? It's my understanding that 3GS and 4 phones have encrypted HDDs, with the remote wipe clearing the keys. I'm no expert, but wouldn't that be equivalent to any other disk encryption technique (which, to my knowledge, is practically unbreakable if keys are unavailable)?

Xuzz 16y ago
If they power it off, using the same exploits as the iPhone jailbreaks (and using forensic tools by Jonathan Zdziarski; http://twitter.com/JZDZIARSKI http://twitter.com/JZDZIARSKI) they can easily recover the data. Before the boot-up ROM used on the iPhone was exploited, though, this was much more difficult (if not impossible).