iPhones are like elephants: they never forget
2008-05-21 16:08:00 view : 58
We cant imagine parting with our iPhone just yet—not until the mythical 3G version comes out, anyway—but it seems that some of the refurbished iPhones that Apple is selling are making their way out to the public with a little extra something: data from their previous owners. A detective from the Oregon State Police was able to extract data from a refurbished iPhone. It appears that though you can wipe your iPhone from inside iTunes, it doesnt do quite the thorough job that you might want. So, if you are planning getting rid of your iPhone, Rich Mogull of TidBITS (and a Macworld contributor) has a suggestion about how to thoroughly clean your data off the iPhone, using nothing more than iTunes. Richs method essentially relies on overwriting the existing data by repeatedly syncing media files to the iPhone. It may not be quite as complete as some of the low-level formatting options available to other disks, but its probably better than just using the default that iTunes offers. [via Gizmodo] Copyright Mac Publishing LLC. This RSS feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you're not reading this material in your news aggregator, the site you're looking at is guilty of copyright infringement. Please contact webmaster@macworld.com so we can take legal action immediately.
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