ElcomSoft a Russian company has beaten Apple’s iOS 4-hardware encryption; the firm is now offering the software that cracked iOS 4 to military and government agencies.
Having this sort of technology is fantastic if the agencies above will receive the crack but we all know that other sources will end up with it, which could cause all sorts of problems. ElcomSoft now have the ability to access everything on your iPhone 4 for example, they can check all the handsets history, text messages, emails, passwords, usernames, call history and even more interesting they can recover data deleted by the user from the device according to Geek.com
The software is now available to buy via ElcomSoft that will allow you to extract the encrypted data on a device, this software is called “ElcomSoft Phone Password Breaker” and for the professional edition it only costs £199.
For the crack to work you need the iOS device in your possession, does this mean that everyone has to protect their smartphones so it does not fall into the wrong hands? Has privacy gone right out of the window?
Millions of people across the world use smartphones for business, emails, messaging, calling, banking, location data and so much more, are we as smartphone users safe? Can we have at least something in our lives that is private to us and only us? We think not.
To learn more about iOS 4 and understanding data protection please visit this Apple page, what are your views on the above and the iOS 4 hardware encryption cracked by Russians at ElcomSoft?
Source – VentureBeat
