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What stops someone from attacking the system outside of the operating system? Or (at the very 'worst'), simply taking a copy of the storage and reloading the image onto the original device repeatedly?
On a PC, attacking outside the operating system is dead easy when you have physical access. All you need to do is boot from a CD or USB drive. If the BIOS ...
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The security of a pattern lock is going to depend greatly on a) how it is implemented and b) how long and what path the user chooses. The interesting metric you are looking for to know how secure something is is a concept called entropy or randomness.
If entropy is maximized, then each choice should be unrelated to prior choices and the difficulty of ...
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Kos demonstrated a P2P attack on Android at Derbycon last year that only takes seconds. PDF Warning: http://kyleosborn.com/android/AndroidPhySec.pdf Here is a video of the demonstration from Hak5 http://hak5.org/episodes/hak5-1205 (Kos starts at 6:55).
A lot of time with the pattern lock, there are ways you can just look at it and see what the pattern is ...
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Some mobile devices provide on device encryption to protect them, tied to the passcode/password that the user enters. When tied to a device wipe after a certain (small) number of incorrect attempts, they can provide an effective mechanism to protect the data held on the device in a "lost/stolen device" scenario.
To take iOS devices as an example, you can't ...
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You are missing the point of the lockscreens of the various mobile operating systems.
They are not an effective deterrent for attackers who has stolen your phone and has an unlimited period of time to attack it. However, they are effective in deterring chance attackers who happens to walk by and only has a short period of access to your phone.
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Regarding your dad's iPhone, there's nothing to worry about. This is just an automated attack against Wafer GSM-AUTO (SMS-capable) devices.
The Wafer GSM-AUTO is a very simple Microcontroller. You can think of it as a remote power switch. It control anything from a security door switch to a normal light switch.
I'll try to translate the commands for you
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