Do you have an iPhone? Don't commit any crimes with it!

[thewayne]

It takes a screen shot capture every time you press the home key, and the security can be broken in 60 seconds, revealing all of your cached Safari browsing and Google Maps queries. A security expert who revealed the screen shot says that data that is a couple of months old can be retrieved.

http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/09/hacker-says-sec.html

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/12/1442213

Comments

[kylejcrb.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, getting data, deleted or not, off of practically any cell phone isn't particularly difficult. Motorola's software brought up practically every text message I'd ever written with my old Razr the first time I used it.

[silveradept]

Yay. Greater mobility, cooler features, new security vulnerabilities. Although this seems like a problem that could happen with any phone, because it sounds like the root cause is weak passcode security.