IOS 6.1 hack lets users see your phone app, place calls

Re:IOS 6.1 hack lets users see your phone app, place calls by darxius on Friday February 15, 2013 @07:49AM (#5225866)

What are the chances this is a built-in backdoor? Also, what would be the ramifications if someone found out it was?

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Re:IOS 6.1 hack lets users see your phone app, place calls by misnome on Friday February 15, 2013 @07:59AM (#5225896)

Virtually nil.

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Re:IOS 6.1 hack lets users see your phone app, place calls by JagMicker on Friday February 15, 2013 @10:06AM (#5226465)

Why would Apple intentionally add a backdoor like this to iOS? If their goal was to create a way for LEO/courts/etc. to access locked phones, why wouldn't they make the backdoor function only when the phone is in DFU mode, or make a separate application that can access locked phones, and strictly control access to that application?

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