There is an interesting article by Tom Simonite over at newscience.com called “Personal secrets your iPhone could reveal”. Which goes into some interesting facts about what the iPhone stores, and how it can be dangerous when in the hands of a bad guy.
The result: an easily lost or stolen device with a lot of private and sensitive data on. And a book released this week called iPhone Forensics (published by O’Reilly) gives an insight into the surprising amount of personal information a smartphone can store. Or give away.
Here’s a list of ways in which your iPhone could release sensitive data about you – I image much the same could be gleaned from other similarly advanced handsets.
- Past keyboard input – “Nearly everything typed into the iPhone’s keyboard is stored in a keyboard cache, which can linger even after deleted.” That will include user names, passwords and much more.
- Deleted images from the photo library, camera roll and web history can sometimes be recovered.
- Deleted address book entries, contacts, calendar events can also sometimes be recovered.
Full story and list at newscience.com “Personal secrets your iPhone could reveal”