POLL: Do you have a Passcode on your iPhone?

[MotionMan]

I don't have one set to avoid inquisition from the wife.

You could explain why you are using a Passcode and tell her the code before she finds out about it on her own.

MotionMan

 

[joutlaw]

Yes, it is enforced from our Exchange server. 10 wrong attempts and it wipes the device.

Androids are still lacking from my experience. They can take a passcode, but it defaults to the keyboard, not a keypad. This is on 2.1 at least.

 

[Kev]

I think it will be cool if the iphone can someday scan fingerprints or scan your retina to lockdown the phone.

 

[dawks]

Which can easily be thwarted by someone who knows anything about iPhones, like an iPhone thief, no?

MotionMan

Yup, all you'd have to do is get into settings, and hit Airplane mode. Remote Wipe wont work then. Once thats done, they can unlink it from the MobileMe account (without a password AFAIK), then they can re-activate the wireless and use the phone and Remote Wipe still wont work.

Just heard a story on TWiT where cabbies in New York are paid to bring lost phones to people who like to steal info from them. They get more money if they pop the battery right away so the phone can't be Remote Wiped.. Pretty interesting.



Also I see if you go to 'Auto-Lock' under general settings I only get 1, 2, 3, 4, 5min, or never. But if I go to 'Passcode Lock', then 'Require Passcode After..." I get 1, 5, 15min, 1, 4 hrs.. So that might be part of the discrepancy some are seeing. Two different areas.

 

[TuxDave]

Which can easily be thwarted by someone who knows anything about iPhones, like an iPhone thief, no?

MotionMan

You have high expectations of thieves

 

[smackababy]

I don't use one because I don't have anything important on my phone and the only time it isn't in my pocket is when I am using it, at home, or at the gym. At the gym, it is locked up and at home I have far more things to worry about than someone posting something on Facebook from my phone.

 

[Emulex]

you just need that warez the german dude made that decrypts the phone - using a JB - then you can get all the stuffs a password is hiding.

I Can understand if you are a tard and save your vpn or RDP password on your phone but really? a 4thy could JB your machine and use a cloud to brute force the encryption now. for cheap.

software is what $400?

 

[dionx]

Yup, all you'd have to do is get into settings, and hit Airplane mode. Remote Wipe wont work then. Once thats done, they can unlink it from the MobileMe account (without a password AFAIK), then they can re-activate the wireless and use the phone and Remote Wipe still wont work.

They can't unlink the MobileMe account if you Enable Restrictions and make it so you can't add/remove email accounts. You need to enter a password to remove restrictions.

 

[MotionMan]

You have high expectations of thieves

You have naively low expectations of iPhone thieves.

MotionMan

 

[MotionMan]

I don't use one because I don't have anything important on my phone

If you have e-mail entries in your contact list, those can be sold to spammers. ID thieves can use all the info you have about your contacts (first, last, address, phone, e-mail, birthday?)

and the only time it isn't in my pocket is when I am using it, at home, or at the gym. At the gym, it is locked up and at home I have far more things to worry about than someone posting something on Facebook from my phone.

Gym lockers are notoriously unsecure places.

MotionMan

 

[MotionMan]

They can't unlink the MobileMe account if you Enable Restrictions and make it so you can't add/remove email accounts. You need to enter a password to remove restrictions.

So they put it in Airplane mode, steal the info and either wipe the phone and resell it or throw it away.

I don't mind losing my phone. That can be replaced. I am more worried about my data. Since starting this thread, I have put a Passcode on my iPhone.

MotionMan

 

[MotionMan]

Seems appropriate here:

Picturescue Recovers iPhone Photos from iTunes Backup Files.

MotionMan

 

[Paperlantern]

I guess you have failed to see that there are two different places to set the password time. Auto Lock only gives you 1 to 5 minutes.
When you go into Passcode Lock the options go from immediately to 5 hours.....

BTW, I don't use a passcode for day to day use but only when I go travelling to the cities.....

I guess you have failed to read the thread.

Additionally, autolock is NOT passcode lock. Two different things. Autolock is the screen lock, the only thing one has to do with the other is by default, screen lock induces passcode lock, but not by modifying the setting is passcode lock... that is the ONLY place to adjust those settings. Autolock is more or less just screen sleep... power saver. Nothing to do with security.

The Exchange theory makes sense, i use exchange on my phone and i just checked our settings, it is overriding the ones on the phone, so up to 15 minutes is all I have. Good to know.

 

[MotionMan]

I have been using a 15 minute passcode since 5/25. I am pretty use to it and am happy to have at least a little security for my data.

MotionMan