Just saw a news on Wired today about possible iPhone’s security breach. Basically iPhone users must know that when they press the home button, there’s a shrinking effect of current window that becomes disappeared. In order to create that effect, iPhone has to take a screenshot of your current window and store it in the memory. Should those images be deleted right away, hackers and forensic experts could manage to restore them - just like there’s no such thing as “permanent delete” on your hard drive even if you thought you have deleted your files for good.
This privacy breach seems to help the authority find criminal traces. On the other hand, it allows hackers to exploit your privacy. Let’s say the screenshot is the email you are replying to your spouse as she asked for password for a photo sharing site that you both have the same account. Bank account, work data, anything you can think of could be exploited this way.
iPhone is great, fantastic, and fun to use. Many of us have put more trust on this device and similar things than our home computers. However, it’s not only a simple phone with voice function, it’s a mini-operating system device and hackers will find way to exploit it just like they are doing now to our OS.