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Your iPhone PIN can be bypassed.

Yazoo said:
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To be fair, it got MMS with a carrier settings update (AT&T didn't enable it until some time after Apple added the capability to iOS).
 
lol that's hilarious. Talk about a pretty serious security hole. Not that one should store confidential info on their phone, but if it's linked to services or has "remember password" set for stuff like SSH servers it could be bad.
 
Red Squirrel said:
lol that's hilarious. Talk about a pretty serious security hole. Not that one should store confidential info on their phone, but if it's linked to services or has "remember password" set for stuff like SSH servers it could be bad.
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The glitch only allows access to the phone app, so that shouldn't matter.
 
it doesn't really connect. You can hit it then immediately hit cancel.

I want to know what kind of person figured this out. I mean, are we serious with this? going to the dialer, holding down the power button, then canceling, then going to sleep, going back to the dialer, diall 911, cancel, back to sleep, then wake up, hold down the power button and press emergency call right before the power slider appears. and, btw, make sure you hold down the power button while you're crusing around the phone app, because as soon as you let go of it, it goes away.

I mean, how was anyone ever supposed to find this?
 
bearxor said:
it doesn't really connect. You can hit it then immediately hit cancel.
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That's the "plan". But if you screw up that step (you drop it, someone interrupts you, something lags and it doesn't respond to your cancel push, you accidentally hit the home screen after calling, etc...).... then what. 😛
 
TuxDave said:
That's the "plan". But if you screw up that step (you drop it, someone interrupts you, something lags and it doesn't respond to your cancel push, you accidentally hit the home screen after calling, etc...).... then what. 😛
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Hit it again.
 
bearxor said:
it doesn't really connect. You can hit it then immediately hit cancel.

I want to know what kind of person figured this out. I mean, are we serious with this? going to the dialer, holding down the power button, then canceling, then going to sleep, going back to the dialer, diall 911, cancel, back to sleep, then wake up, hold down the power button and press emergency call right before the power slider appears. and, btw, make sure you hold down the power button while you're crusing around the phone app, because as soon as you let go of it, it goes away.

I mean, how was anyone ever supposed to find this?
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It's not that hard when you already know that the lock screen has had vulnerabilities that involved notifications and camera shortcuts in the past and that the lock button and off slider have hidden process-killing functions when used in conjunction with the Home button. In fact, I fooled around a few minutes with someone else's phone to get background Safari media playback to work again (stopped working in iOS6.1) and was successful several times, though I couldn't figure out how to do it consistently. I was using camera/camcorder lock shortcuts with task switcher and lock-screen controls with multiple locks and unlocks before and after leaving Safari and I would not doubt if this was discovered by just such deliberate searching. In fact, it may have been another person trying to figure out how to leave Safari without it unregistering itself with the background music playback control API.
 
Oh if it's just the phone app then not really a huge deal. Guess the only thing to worry would be if someone makes a long distance call, but that's not as bad as someone getting into all your accounts and stuff.
 
Red Squirrel said:
Oh if it's just the phone app then not really a huge deal. Guess the only thing to worry would be if someone makes a long distance call, but that's not as bad as someone getting into all your accounts and stuff.
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They can access all your contacts and voicemail. From your contacts, they can access email, locations, birthdays, and all kinds of info. That where the bulk of private info seems to be for the average user, so don't belittle it.
 
I didn't realize this was moved to All Things Apple. I deliberately posted in Off Topic as a PSA to all iPhone owners.
 
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