The discovery by some Brazilian dude (read the article here – www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/10/iphone-snoop/), notes the following procedure:

1. Press the emergency call buton
2. Dial ###
3. Push the call button, and immediately hit the “lock” button (power button, whatever you want to call the button on top of the phone)

This launches the “phone” application, allowing you to see recent call history, contacts, and the ability to call any number you want.

Pressing the home key doesn’t work in this mode, so you can’t get much further then that, but it’s an interesting security flaw!

Okay, no, I lied.

But it appears, after Steve Jobs keynote yesterday (or last night Australian time), that Mac OS X Lion is going to be very iPad-esque.

From the “sneak peak” posted on Apple’s website (here - www.apple.com/macosx/lion/), all I can say is wow!

I think this is really exciting. I’ve been a Mac-supporter for about a year and a half now, and rave to anyone I can about the increase in productivity (or atleast, the perception of) of using a Mac. Apple have got one thing down pat, simple interface and navigation design. And it’s one hell of a winner.

The new features, atleast from the sneak peak and the keynote, include:

• App Store, for Mac – bringing the success of the iDevice App Store to the Mac itself, could be interesting, and I wonder how many $1.99 apps I’ll waste my money on, like with my iPhone 4…
• Launchpad – attempting to bring the home screen interface from iPhone and iPad to the Mac, this could be interesting. I like how you are able to organise apps in folders etc also, just like the iPhone…
• Full screen apps – I don’t quite understand the need for this one on a Mac, except for their opinion that it’s less distracting, true that.
• Mission Control – I like it, similar to Windows 7 (I think even Vista had similar functionality?). Makes it easier switching between programs, especially if you have heaps open, ALT+TAB (or Command for the Mac users) can be a bit annoying when you have alot open.
• Facetime – alot of people (read: iPhone haters) have alot to say about how stupid it is to have video calling on an iPhone, that only works with, well, the iPhone… And only whilst connected to a wireless network. Perhaps some more attention to the iPhone side of things might help here, as well as Windows clients for Facetime. Standards based video calling built in to the iPhone would also be nice, so atleast you could have inferior quality video calling with your inferior friends (who are only inferior because they don’t use an iPhone, of course)

One thing I’d really be interested in seeing, is the ability to run iPad and iPhone apps natively in OS X… Having a desktop version of the Facebook application, for instance, could reduce the amount of time I actually sit on Facebook. Angry Birds, however, could be dangerous as a desktop app…

Me being the MacFag that I am, with my iPhone 4 and all, jumped on iTunes and downloaded the album, a minute later I had it all right there, playing through my little Sennheiser’s.

I’m embarrassed to admit it, this is the third legitimate music purchase through iTunes… Why? Because they make it so easy!

Curse Apple for putting a music shop in my pocket!

EDIT: Oh yeah, Art vs Science are awesome….

Pull image off iPhone using the following commands.

aknowles-mac:~ aknowles$ nc -l 30001 | dd of=iphone.img

iPhone:~ root# dd if=/dev/rdisk0s2s1 bs=1M | nc 192.168.1.1 30001

The first command uses `nc`, aka netcat, and opens a port up and listens using the -l switch. You run this on your destination computer, and pipe the output to the disk image file, i.e. iphone.img (filename unimportant).

On the iPhone itself, you point `nc` to the destination computer after it has been setup to listen. Pipe the output of `dd` reading the iPhone disk to the `nc` command and it will transfer. Note: I found the iPhone would not read the disk without the bs=1M switch.

The process can take a while. It’s taken about 20 minutes for 2.5gb to transfer over the wireless link I’ve setup between my laptop and my iPhone… For a 32gb iPhone, this will obviously take a while!!!

Once complete, analyse iphone.img with Scalpel or whichever forensics software you prefer.

Reference Links:

www.sinfuliphone.com/showthread.php?t=22588

log.ijulien.com/post/182804914/iphone-3gs-data-recovery

modmyi.com/forums/file-mods/237321-how-iphone-data-recovery.html

Suffice to say, my root password on my iPhone is now changed!

Oh and I love the Rick Roll effect. Personally, I would have set the ring tone to Rick Astley as well

Read more here: www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/the-worm-turns-on-the-iphone-as-virus-hits/story-e6freuy9-1225795892928