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Wipe That iPhone Before You Sell It

June 4, 2008 – 8:38 am

I mentioned before that the data on your iPhone can be recovered. That is still true. There is no proven method to securely wipe the iPhone as of this writing.
However, the same man who wrote the scary forensic tool for the iPhone is letting people in on how he prepares items for resale:
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Read This Before You Sell Your Old iPhone for the 3G iPhone

May 19, 2008 – 7:22 pm

Jonathan Zdziarski has revealed that the iPhone can’t delete personal data, in fact, it keeps tons of important stuff that could lead to identity theft, among other things. Right now his forensic tools are available only to Law Enforcement officials, but he plans to release it to the public. This means that anyone willing to [...]

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How the iPhone Saved us on a Mountain in the Winter

November 26, 2007 – 11:26 am

My friends and I went Hiking a few days ago. Hiking in very late November, in the White Mountains, overnight can be dangerous if you don’t know what you are doing. Luckily Casey, Will, and myself all know how to prepare and what to do in common winter hiking situations. The problem was that neither [...]

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iPhone Update Locks Down 3rd Party Apps, Time for a Linux Phone?

September 27, 2007 – 6:10 pm

With Apple’s recent move to lock down the iPhone and iPod Touch the Linux Phone called OpenMoko is starting to look better all the time.
From the OpenMoko website:
OpenMoko is a GNU / Linux based open software development platform. Developers have full access to OpenMoko source and they can tailor their implementations to underlying hardware platforms.
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