Posts by Stephen Kapp

iPhone passwords not worth the paper they're written on

Not New... Have Physical Access = 0wned..

This is not new, back when the 1st Gen phones where released you used these features to allow the installation and download of the early Jailbreak software. You could even use then on an phone that wasn't activated yet.

Either way you have access to the device you can remove the pass code and dump everything off the iPhone using Mac or PC with the appropriate tools... There is a nice book in the works on iPhone Forensics from ORA that covers most of this..

Vodafone billing woes continue

Explains everything..

Now this explains why I've been unable to get at my vodafone bills for nearly 4 months now, why they are messing up the direct debits and have so far been totally unable to provide me with paper bill so I know how much I've to pay before they try to take my money..

It also explains why everytime I've contacted they CS about the issue they have been unable to fix, it also explains the strange call I got on Monday from someone in Vodafone asking if I'd had any problems with my billing... Which would be obvious to them if they'd looked at the account records..

A Defcon survival guide

Simpler Security Measures

Even simpler security measures for when your at DefCon.

DO NOT TAKE ANYTHING WITH A CPU IN IT TO DEFCON.

Take a couple of pens and a notebook for note taking, ideas, etc.

Orange and Vodafone cripple Nokia's flagship

This is nothing new from Vodafone

Vodafone have disabled the VoIP client built into the Nokia 6680, Nokia E61 and pretty much anything they sell that has Series 60 on. However it is easily fixed by having the phone reflashed with a generic Nokia firmware...