The Apple corporation has tall claims that the iPhone is being used by several large corporations and businesses across the world and is a great phone when it comes to security of the data sent through the phone, but all this has been proved wrong by a hacker who claims that one can crack the encryption used in the iPhone within a span of several minutes by using easily available freeware tools.
Jonathan Zdziarski, the hacker and the teacher who has this claim says that "“It is kind of like storing all your secret messages right next to the secret decoder ring. I don’t think any of us have ever seen encryption implemented so poorly before, which is why it’s hard to describe why it’s such a big threat to security”. Contrary to Apple’s claim that the new iPhone 3GS is more enterprise friendly the new iPhone 3GS’ encryption feature is “broken” when it comes to protecting sensitive information such as credit card numbers and social-security digits, Zdziarski said.
Though Apple has declined to comment on iPhone security issues, the company has more or less admitted iPhones are vulnerable to security threats, because an emergency measure exists.In August 2008, Apple CEO Steve Jobs acknowledged the existence of a remote kill switch for iPhone apps, meaning if a malicious app made its way onto iPhones, Apple could trigger a command to delete the app from users’ devices.
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