If you find yourself in need of a charging station, the team behind this experiment found that most phones don’t give up information when the phone is powered off.
Most phones? Can someone provide examples of phones that offer data connectivity when the phone is powered off?
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Many android phones do this, however not all. This is up to the specific ROM you are running.
iOS devices have put in a phenomenal effort to secure against these attacks, including requiring encryption keys before allowing unknown computers to access the device or data.
Agreed this is an article churn for advertisement.
Recently this attack was back in the news due to NSA referencing it in a mobile device security paper.
BTW if anyone has questions about it, feel free to ask me. I'm the guy (along with friends) who was building these kiosks and deploying them at "hacker" conferences and then gave a presentation on the matter.
hm i never got it :(
and i tested the address too since i don't use it much!
i'd definitely love to chat though. an alternate just in case is jwb [at] tu [dot] nr
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Re-submitted last week: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4951354
Guess geek.com picked up this re-submission and churned an article out of it?? ;)
iOS devices have put in a phenomenal effort to secure against these attacks, including requiring encryption keys before allowing unknown computers to access the device or data.
Recently this attack was back in the news due to NSA referencing it in a mobile device security paper.
BTW if anyone has questions about it, feel free to ask me. I'm the guy (along with friends) who was building these kiosks and deploying them at "hacker" conferences and then gave a presentation on the matter.