full-disclosure - Re: "Jailpassing" technique for iphones

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Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 00:29:41 +0800
From: "hmmrjmmr@...il.com" <hmmrjmmr@...il.com>
To: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: "Jailpassing" technique for iphones

Yeah, i second that - more videos = more helpful to everyone.

What i found interesting about this one though is that it didn't stop at
bypassing the code-lock but also alludes to what you can do to the phone
from a non-forensic standpoint, e.g. load in "real-spy"ware (as in bugging
or some other surveillance tool).

The later part of the video showed the guy loading in a filesystem app
(afs-something it was called??) to access the phone's root partition from
his macbook.  If you're a gumshoe hired to keeps tabs on a suspected
cheating spouse and was presented with the suspect's iphone, that could then
be a prelude to loading in custom code or commercial bugging software to
turn the phone into a bugging tool and the evidence of the jailbreak removed
(as opposed to using the code-bypass to get into the phone to do forensics)

So instead of bypassing the code-lock to access the phone for forensics
purposes, you could instead load in surveillance/bugging software and then
remove obvious evidence of the jailbreak (e.g. uninstall Cydia) and restore
the passcode so that the user was none the wiser...
Now that i think about it, this could be used for corporate espionage too
(e.g. CEO getting his phone bugged...)

On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 11:47 PM, Tyler Borland <tborland1@...il.com> wrote:

> Yes, same exact story with different software.  Pretty much, the only
> difference is the tool they chose to modify.  There are a few webcasts
> in which I saw when they came out, where that iPhone forensics book
> guy does a good hour webcasts on what he did and what more is
> possible.  Two different modified tools to do forensics (including the
> get rid of passcode trick).  Even more if you include the Youtube
> video that was linked in an earlier reply:
>
> http://oreillynet.com/pub/e/949  - IPhone Forensics Demo
> http://oreillynet.com/pub/e/1093 - iPhone Forensics 101: Bypassing the
> iPhone Passcode
>
> I still think the video was cool, however it didn't exactly offer
> anything that wasn't available before.  Just proving possibility with
> newer techniques.  More videos with more techniques is never a bad
> thing.
>
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