‘Your iOS Device isn’t as Encrypted as You Think’

[Jonathan Zdziarski][1]: > The real question is, who do you want your data to be secured from? Your typical snot-nosed TSA agent certainly isn’t going to have a device capable of scraping data off of your phone, however both hackers and government might. If you jailbreak your device, it’s possible that a much larger pool…

[Jonathan Zdziarski][1]:

> The real question is, who do you want your data to be secured from? Your typical snot-nosed TSA agent certainly isn’t going to have a device capable of scraping data off of your phone, however both hackers and government might. If you jailbreak your device, it’s possible that a much larger pool of people will as well.

I never assumed iOS was *that* secure, but not storing Keychain passwords in encrypted files is worrying to me. (*Note*: I have no clue why I had that in there as it is clearly not consistent with this article, sorry. -Ben) I think the above just about sums up all computer security though. The more you hack, the larger the potential to open up *more* security holes. However, the pool of people that can exploit and get a hold of your data, is small, but growing. They have to have good reason to want *your* data.

(via reader Philip)

[1]: http://www.zdziarski.com/blog/?p=2149

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