From RealTechNews
"Not sure how a police detective in Oregon was the one to crack this, but he found a way to retrieve calls, emails, and contacts from a recently purchased refurbished iPhone that had “allegedly” been wiped clean. Not good news to the many businesses eyeing the iPhone, as well as the core users who chat and phone and email on their beloved handset.
(I'm guessing Device Seizure 2.0).
The good news is that Apple is prepping a new version of its software that will wipe your iPhone clean. Verdict Takes about an hour to erase the 8GB version, but that is one hour well spent."
Can the process be interrupted?
I have not noticed such a through option on other high end phones.
The Blackberry products take a similar amount of time when running the "Wipe Handheld" function.
E5Pro,
I have seen where a lot of stores etc… claim that their refurbished phones have been wiped clean, when in fact the contents were only deleted…
Just my thoughts…
I was going to write a piece on this at my webblog, but since its already here at ForensicFocus and Jamie runs a great forum
From RealTechNews
"Not sure how a police detective in Oregon was the one to crack this, but he found a way to retrieve calls, emails, and contacts from a recently purchased refurbished iPhone that had “allegedly” been wiped clean. Not good news to the many businesses eyeing the iPhone, as well as the core users who chat and phone and email on their beloved handset.
Recovering deleted data from mobile devices may well become a thing of the past. A lot of handset manufacturers are worried about breaches of DRM and IP. The continued invasive approaches trawling flash memory by deleted data recovery programs and hackers plus commercial organisations concerns about "risks" associated with mobile devices, I get the impression are taking their toll. The extra security and costs they are having to put new measures in place can be seen with the displacement of PIM data being scattered among a random number of components outside of flash in some devcies, may be indicating withdrawal of any type of permission from handset manufacturers to the outside world to invade their devices and its security.
The good news is that Apple is prepping a new version of its software that will wipe your iPhone clean. Verdict Takes about an hour to erase the 8GB version, but that is one hour well spent."
This is another good example of retrenchment by the handset industry.
Separately, techie (off-the-record) gossip has it that "wipe-out", a buzzword just beginning to circulate, meaning overwriting of all deleted data, will automatically occur during recharging of handsets and will be default unless the user selects otherwise. I could be wrong, but should the gossip be true and, more importantly, correct, it may impact during recharging with recharging times increasing by nTime. I do not know how long nTime will be but suggestions are it equates to a number of factors
a) the size of free-space memory
b) the writes/deletes impact on life-time of flash (wearleveling)
c) the time it takes to overwrite deleted data based upon block journaling
d) any compression techniques
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x) the charge time needed to perform (having considered a, b, c, d, -) etc) plus battery recharging