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Comment by mikeyanderson | Hacker News Reader

Everyone that I showed this screen to on their own phone hadn't ever seen that it existed. It's one thing for the phone to log it in some database. It's another that anyone could pick up your phone and see where you live, work, what time you come home, etc.

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it'd be awfully tough for them to just go to the Contacts app, pull up your card and see your address :(

Use a passcode for goodness sake! Actively protect your data!

Passcodes are easily bypassed. Buy an XRY and you can get into any phone.

http://www.msab.com

Same way the police do it.

Modern iPhones are entirely encrypted while locked. The key resides in a crypto processor and is irreversibly destroyed during a brute-force attempt (provided you have this turned on).

These devices need certain plists from the phone's trusted iTunes library (if it even has one) to "break" into modern iPhones.

(Some) Android phones might be vulnerable to these though.

If someone can see this screen, they have access to your email. Did you disable email too?

E-mail isn't something that just happens automatically on your phone, you have to set it up, and thus you know it's there and are making a conscious decision that the privacy risks outweigh the value of the service.

Starting with iOS 7, passcode setup happens on first boot. If someone chooses not to put a basic lock on their device (leaving this info vulnerable) then there's much more valuable data that's also exposed.

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