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The biggest iPhone security risk could be connecting one to a computer
- Sephiroth87 12y agoIf your computer is infected by malware, at that point they could just get cookies and stuff from the computer itself...
- dublinben 12y agoMobile devices have much more interesting data these days. I doubt your computer has a detailed log of your location, your entire contact book, and unprotected tokens for services.
- nailer 12y agoA USB condom [1] would prevent this attack. Another fix would be requiring the device to be unlocked before doing anything involving the data pins. [1] http://int3.cc/products/usbcondoms http://int3.cc/products/usbcondoms
- sosuke 12y agohttps://lockedusb.com https://lockedusb.com another product along those lines
- tedunangst 12y agoLocked or unlocked? It's not really clear, but reading between the lines it sounds like this only works with an unlocked phone that trusts the computer. Like they built a version of naughty iTunes that does bad things when you sync with it.