Friday, September 25, 2015

Huge loopholes in IOS 9 bypasses lock screen to grant access to contacts and photos

iOS 9 is the ninth release of the iOS mobile operating system designed by Apple Inc. and the successor to iOS 8. It was announced at the company's Worldwide Developers Conference 2015 on June 8, 2015, and was released on September 16, 2015. iOS 9 focuses less on new features and more on under-the-hood optimizations, as well as battery improvements. On September 21, 2015, Apple announced that iOS 9 had been installed on more than 52% of active iOS devices, making it the fastest adoption rate for a new operating system and significantly faster than that of its predecessor.

A potentially massive loophole has been uncovered in the iOS 9 device lock screen, enabling access a user's contacts and photos without ever having to enter the correct PIN. In a YouTube video posted by an individual called Jose Rodriguez, he goes through the motions of demonstrating how this can be done by recruiting none other than Apple's own built-in voice assistant Siri. Here's how it appears to work: after entering an incorrect PIN several times, he launches Siri from the lock screen, then simply asks what time it is.

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