Iphone Security

I had my Iphone for almost a year now since I bought it November last year. I could say that there are really performance issues sometimes. Well, let us just consider that nothing is perfect anyway. The design is sleek and I am very comfortable having this phone. The phone was great. I could attest to that. However, Apple has most likely concentrated in developing the phone’s interface and functionality rather the security overall.

The first generation Iphone’s (just like the one I own) was release July last year. The default phone was lock to AT&T that makes it disabled for other mobile carrPost Optionsiers. Few days after its release, Iphone dev team: http://blog.iphone-dev.org/ successfully unbricked the phone modifying the standard Operating System, enabling 3^rd party applications and unlocking the phone to be use for different carriers and the rest of the recent firmwares are history.

It feels good and a bit disappointing as well.

Iphone runs in an ARM processor with a core infrastructure that was a derivative of Mac OS X, which was derive from the Mach kernel of the foremost BSD Unix and constantly known for its hard-core design and security until now. With this in mind, I was wondering what happened to the application security design of the Iphone?

1. Previous Iphone firmware versions was unbrick and jailbroken.
2. The root password is encrypted with DES, which makes the hashes easy for John the ripper. Alpine / Dottie

Anyway, just like what I said awhile ago. It's a bit disappointing, but its definitely good. Why? Won't be able to use this phone if they didn't hacked on them'...