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Apple’s famous iPhone has GPS, syncs your iTunes, connects at 3G speeds and will give away your personal data! Who wants one? The flaw allows anyone to access the personal data on the iPhone even if it is locked with a passcode.

What is required to bypass the security, according to Macworld: “hit the ‘emergency calls’ button, and then hit the Home button rapidly twice when they will be automatically transported to a users ‘Favorites’ folder (by default).” From here you can get to a user’s email, contacts and their web browser even though you have not entered the passcode. Apple is working on a patch, but until then there is a ‘fix’ that involves changing the home button to pull up something other than your favorites.

I should be careful here…if I keep up this iPhone and Apple coverage I may get accused of being a fanboy. =^.^=

For the technical side, this ‘update’ is well over 200MB in size and is supposed to come already installed on the new 3G iPhone. So…maybe that’s another reason why you have to activate the phone at ATT/Apple instead of having it shipped directly, because they can update the firmware at the last minute. There is a slew of items that 2.0 brings for the typical home user as well as the corporate user, according to Macworld and other sources. Most exciting about the 2.0 release is the support for 3rd party apps, or at least the 3rd party apps that Apple ‘approves’ that is.

Ok, I’ll leave it at that…I know some of you are sick and tired of the iPhone news. =)