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Despite Apple's Privacy Pledge, Cops Can Still Pull Data Off a Locked iPhone
- kalleboo 12y agoTL;DR: A previously trusted/paired computer can read data on an iPhone. The pairing code can by copied to other computers (via restoring from backup etc). So use full-disk encryption on your computer and backups as well.
- akbar501 12y agoThe method for extracting data requires access to the phone and the user's laptop. When someone has physical access to a device, the vast majority of security goes out of the window (sans disk encryption). This is very different from remote monitoring of a user's data in Apple's data center. Obviously, privacy needs to be addressed in the larger political arena, however Apple's moves here should be applauded.
- pktgen 12y agoI hope there's a future feature to disable pairing records and require the phone to be unlocked every time it is connected to a computer (before it can be synced). I find that I rarely need to sync with a computer, so I would not be bothered by such a requirement.