Cops love finding iPhones at crime scenes because the phones carry so much priceless data about your usage habits, or as the cops call it, evidence. That email you typed months back about feeling stabby when you drink? It's still there because there because the iPhone captures everything you type to help fuel its spellcheck abilities—even emails you thought you deleted. And that's not all.
* Every time an iPhone user closes out of the built-in mapping application, the phone snaps a screenshot and stores it. Savvy law-enforcement agents armed with search warrants can use those snapshots to see if a suspect is lying about whereabouts during a crime.
* iPhone photos are embedded with GEO tags and identifying information, meaning that photos posted online might not only include GPS coordinates of where the picture was taken, but also the serial number of the phone that took it.
* Even more information is stored by the applications themselves, including the user's browser history. That data is meant in part to direct custom-tailored advertisements to the user, but experts said some of it could be useful to police.
* Just as users can take and store a picture of their iPhone's screen, the phone itself automatically shoots and stores hundreds of such images as people close out one application to use another. "Those screen snapshots can contain images of e-mails or proof of activities that might be inculpatory or exculpatory," [said John B. Minor, a member of the International Society of Forensic Computer Examiners].
via iPhones Help Cops Solve Crimes By Capturing Everything You Type, Do - The Consumerist.
You may be surprised. Old images are still there even if you take several videos of a blank wall and let the camera run until it fills up with empty video.
If I delete something, my dang blasted iPhone should obey my friggin commands and really do a real delete! I find this keeping of our data behind our backs so offensive that I'm offering this tip on how to delete your own photos:
(*This worked on an iPhone 3Gs with the 4.0.1 OS )
WARNING: If you don't follow these directions correctly, you could be allowing someone else full access to your phone. 1) get i-FunBox. After downloading it, but before installing it, unplug your network or turn off your wireless access and install it. Plug in your iPhone and browse the Raw File System.
(You don't need iTunes installed, and I don't like it because it freezes and slows my PC down, but you should install it and use it to make a back up of your phone before attempting any of this.)
There are duplicates in several places. There you will find things you thought you deleted months or even years ago.
You can right click, select all, then select Delete from the menu that pops up.
You can delete them and when you delete the .THM files, the thumbnails in your iPhone will turn black. With a Jailed phone, you will still have to delete the non-viewable non-playable images/videos from your iPhone. Other files are BTH, JPG, THL, THM and THP. I'm not sure of the purpose of the BTH, THL and THP files. Anyone know?
On a Jailed iphone (Version 4.0.1 - 8A306 Firmware ) i-FunBox still can not see everything. The above image is still on my phone, but is not visible in the program.
The Microsoft Scanner and Camera Wizard can see the image when I plug in the phone on a computer with out iTunes installed.
(Warning: Don't plug your iPhone into any computer with iTunes installed unless it is your computer! You will likely lose your data. I learned the hard way. Not sure if Apple has fixed this yet. )
It is the discovery of old hidden files on my iPhone that convinced me finally to jailbreak my phone.
I'm trying it now... but realize I may have to restore from back up if it doesn't work.
WARNING: This is probably a bad idea, but I'm trying it anyway. My Jailbreak attempt: With your Safari web browser on your iPhone, visit jailbreakme.com. Slide the slider, then wait (3 hrs?) It crashed after a few minutes. I tried a few hours later, then it finished quickly. Nothing seemed different after the jailbreak, but I heard that with "Frash" (still in alpha) you can view flash content on your iPhone. Seems worth a try. Will the jailbreak allow me to see and delete hidden files with i-FunBox? No. After the jailbreakme.com install, i-FunBox 0.992 Build 0374.0323 Beta can't even see my iPhone. To solve that, you can supposedly do a search in you jailbroken iPhone for Cydia, then a search within Cydia for afc2add and add that. Nope. Actual Fix: If you have a copy of itunesmobile.dll in your i-FunBox directory, delete it. Restart i-FunBox and you can now browse the entire file system of your iPhone.
Next, I created a folder called Cydia and inside it one called AutoInstall under Raw File System | Private | var | root and dropped this 11MB Frash.deb file 0.02 in there, then rebooted my phone a few times.
No luck.
Try this:
Step 1: Jailbreak iPhone with JailbreakMe
Step 2: Download Frash-0.02.deb [Download | Mirror]
Step 3: SSH into iPhone. Windows: i-FunBox or WinCSP. Mac: CyberDuck
Step 4: Once you can access iPhone file system, copy the downloaded Frash-0.02.deb to folder named “tmp”.
Step 5: Reboot your iPhone or iPad
Once your device reboots, open Safari and browse to any website that serves Flash content. You should be able to run Flash content using Frash now, simply tap on “Flash” link and it will load Flash content.
Nope.
If copying file to tmp folder doesn’t work for you, do this: Copy the MobileTerminal-426.deb to /var/root/Media/Cydia/AutoInstall
If you can’t locate the “Cydia” folder in “Media”, create it. Then create another folder named “AutoInstall” in “Cydia” folder and copy the .deb file there.
Then reboot your iPhone again, this should work now.
Nope.
In Cydia, click manage, then Sources, then add. Add this source: Http://apt.iphonemodding.com/. Search for frash 0.02, Install, Confirm, (Downloading Core Utilities takes several minutes). Reboot.
Okay, now I do see the word Flash on web pages in Safari where there is flash, but tapping gives me "Could not connection: connection...". I'm not on a wireless network right now. Perhaps you have to be.
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