iOS 5 Glitch Exposes Photo Albums on Locked iPhones

Canadian tech consultant Ade Barkah has uncovered a security bug in iOS 5 that allows for someone to bypass an iPhone’s lock screen and view the device’s photo albums, even without knowing the passcode.

In iOS 5, there is a convenient button on the lock screen, which appears by double-tapping the home button, that allows for you to launch the camera application. Normally, Apple has a restriction that prohibits you from viewing any images on your iPhone’s camera roll while the device is locked, however, during his travels from Canada to Argentina, Barkah discovered that Apple’s restriction is merely based on the iPhone’s system time…

If the iPhone’s clock is ever rolled back, any picture with a time stamp greater than the iPhone’s system clock can now be viewed without a passcode. While it does not occur frequently, an iPhone’s clock could be rolled backwards as a result of a software glitch or by syncing with an erroneous source such as a computer with an incorrect time.

Apple is notorious for releasing time-related bugs, but is usually quick to release a software update to patch the issues. iPhone 4S and iPad 2 owners should be cautious before updating to any such software update, as Apple might patch the untethered jailbreak vulnerability that iOS hacker pod2g is currently working on for A5-equipped devices.

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Well, it’s not a glitch. There is already option to show the camera roll on lock screen or not! You can simply turn off from showing on lock screen! simple!

Anonymous

It’s still a glitch… it’s just an easy glitch to get rid of.

Kok Hean

If there’s a pass code, the person wouldn’t even be able to access the Settings app, let alone set the time backwards. And I don’t think people would want to set their time back anyway, unless they want to cheat in games or something. I think that a time stamp is good for now.

http://www.facebook.com/xoxoxox Ying Zheng

Well actually, if your iPhone is setup to auto sync time, once you plug it into a PC/Mac, it will update the time according to the Machine automatically.

Keksz

LOL

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