"a sequence of swipes and key presses"
That's probably already patented!
Hackers can access iPhones running iOS 6.x without passcodes, and will then be able to access and export the address book, send emails and make phone calls. Jailbreak Nation has discovered the method for doing so and The Reg can confirm the method works after a sequence of swipes and key presses. It worked for us on an iPhone …
Depending on how the screen locker is coded, it could be as simple as tweaking a few lines to deploy a "fix" to buy more time to properly fix the thing. Given that the home button is effectively disabled, it seems as if the locking method is just interrupted while setting variables in the system.
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Gives you access to all this and more from the lock screen anyway, in fact it would be nice if the phone noticed Siri had been activated from the headset and that the phone was in a pocket so as not to activate the screen and allow accidental mute, speakerphone, FaceTime etc interruptions to calls.
Thats quite an involved hack that requires you to hold the sleep button the whole time the device is cracked. Its not like the device is unlocked or 'day-to-day usable. I'd not get the SW team working the weekend on it if I was Tim Cook.
If ppl want to sweat about security, the majority of front door locks in the EU are easily bypassed by crims, but I don't see Yale coming rounf my house with an urgent patch for snappable barrel locks.
I'm just curious how the jailbreak kids found the 'unlock sequence' (if you can call it that).
This is why the tech on the Curiosity Rover is all old hat. Cutting edge tech will always experience problems and updates will always introduce bugs which get fixed by the next update which introduces new bugs and so on. That's just how it is, either live with it or get a boring old Nokia feature phone I guess!
You can dial new numbers, listen to voicemails, see the contacts and the history.
Interestingly, if a contact has a homepage defined, you can normally tap on it and open the browser; but that did not work while using this trick. I assume that you are in a special mode where the phone app works so that you can make emergency phone calls, but nothing else does…
A word of caution: I tried making a phone call, but the results were strange. There was no way to hang up, because the normal buttons would not show up, even after I stopped holding the sleep button. It took me a while to bring it back to a normal state.
No, this "hack" doesn't get you very far.
That said, the problem with this hack is that it may provide a starting point for something that DOES cause harm. As we've seen with DeCSS, all it takes is a bored kid on a rainy Sunday afternoon to fully nuke a business model, so any starting point is bad news. Apple needs to fix this.
Glad I have held off upgrading my iPAD 2 to iOS 6 as the fail keeps coming (even this only affects iPhones). Well the good thing for the poor iPAD original buyers is the difficult decision to upgrade to iOS 6 was taken out of their hands by Apple themselves because of course they know better (and use forced obsolescence as their business model)
When your phone is stolen, don't you just ring up your provider and have the sim blocked, or am I missing something ? This is the most useless hack ever. THE PROBELM IS THEY HAVE THE FECKING PHONE, THATS WHAT SHOULD BE WORRYING YOU! Sweet Weeping Jesus!