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I have just discovered a major security flaw in iOS 6.1
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Have you tried actually emailing them, or initiating any form of contact at all (support case, etc?)
Failing that report it to CERT who will then probably contact apple and publish a security advisory if they can replicate the issue.
Not so, friend. My iPhone is clean, recently updated to version 6.1 beta 4, and I've tried the trick in a 4S and iPhone 5 with the same result. If anyone in the JB world can take advantage ... I do not know.
Maybe Apple's enemies are interested it to be released, but I am an iPhone lover and I'll contact Apple soon for fix it.
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I am not a developer, anyone can update to 6.1 beta version, there are many tutorials.
all of that... but i also want to be able to switch on the camera and the mic so i can see what the phone can see
And if you're not a dev how'd you come to have iOS 6? There are very clear T&C's for all dev's regarding unauthorized device usage.
Anyway I'm a dev and can report the issue via the portal, can you PM it to me?
find my iphone is totally useless if somebody steals your phone. The only way you can then track the phone is by its IMEI code via network operator... so yes, apple should make this thing a little more usefull. Unless they like that peoples iphone's get stolen so they have to buy a new one
find my iphone is totally useless if somebody steals your phone. The only way you can then track the phone is by its IMEI code via network operator... so yes, apple should make this thing a little more usefull. Unless they like that peoples iphone's get stolen so they have to buy a new one
This is one of, if not THE BEST, reasons to jailbreak currently. Cydia apps like "IGotYa" prevent the iPhone from being powered off on the lock screen. So if you set your iphone to automatically lock every minute, there will be no way for the thief to turn off the phone. While it's true that ejecting the SIM card will indeed make an iphone impossible to track, most thiefs don't know this much less have a paper clip available the moment they're stealing your phone. This gives you a huge head start in tracking the device before they can hook it to a computer to wipe it.
Recently I was robbed by two teenagers who placed a semi-automatic gun to my face near Sony Pictures studios in the early evening. Right by a police station, no less. The douchbags who made off with my phone weren't able to turn it off, obviously freaked out about it, and threw it into the side of a freeway overpass. I tracked it with Find My iPhone, called the police who were searching that area for evidence, sent a lost beep sound to it, and it was recovered. There would've been no possible way to have done that if the phone was able to have been turned off the moment it was stolen. I would've been out $700.
Apple should definitely add a 'prevent OFF' when the iPhone is in the lock screen option. Until then, I'm buying theft insurance with my next iPhone. It's not worth getting killed over.
Apple should definitely add a 'prevent OFF' when the iPhone is in the lock screen option. Until then, I'm buying theft insurance with my next iPhone. It's not worth getting killed over.
have you invested in a gun?
Means nothing.
You are not your post count.
I mean i signed up in Feb 2012, but I've been a mac user 5 years and in the PC industry (unix guy) for 18....
I can't believe people are replying to this attention seeking thread?
I can't believe I'm replying?
I can't believe I'm still here typing.
I can't believe I'm replying?
I can't believe I'm still here typing.
None of that really says much whether or not what you think you have come across is really a flaw, that is actually a security flaw, and a major one at that. Without some more information about it it's really hard to say that it is that or might even be that.
As mentioned, in the past people have also came out to talk about major security flaws only to realize that what they were observing (even trying different phones, etc.) was something that was just configured in a way that they didn't realize, or something along those lines, and far from a major security flaw, or even really a flaw.
Ok, I'm going to show through a video by PM, that it is a major security flaw, but I will not explain "how to" do it.
I have already contacted Apple and am waiting for feedback, but, anyway, is also posted in this thread of the existence of the fault, and if Apple wants to fix it, they can simply ask me how it is produced.
Thank you very much to everyone for helping me decide and if the flaw persists, I will surely put it in your knowledge.
has something changed? when has find my iphone not worked when the phone is off? I've tried find my iPhone with my iPhone turned off and it still worked...
Its posting the last signal when the device was on. When the device is fully powered off or the battery dies and then moves away from the last known position it will stop updating and not send a "true" signal.
That's not evidence. If you're not showing how it's done, then whoever looks at that video has no clue what caused whatever it is you claim the iPhone is doing.
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I doubt there was a real flaw, probably a kid trying to get attention/troll.
No tangible information was given and he was sketchy about the topic.
I could be wrong though.
No tangible information was given and he was sketchy about the topic.
I could be wrong though.