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If you've been waiting for iOS 4 to drop, head on over to iTunes. It's gone live on the Apple's phobos servers and iTunes!

iOS 4 is now ready to be downloaded and installed on your newer iPhone OS devices including the iPhone 3G, the iPhone 3GS, the 2G iPod touch and the 3G iPod touch.

Here are the direct links:

• 2G iPod touch
• 3G iPod touch
• iPhone 3G
• iPhone 3GS
  
• iPhone 4 (Update: Link fixed -- sorry about the bad paste)

TUAWiOS 4 is now live originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 21 Jun 2010 13:07:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Here's a slightly disturbing story from iPhone Atlas. Apparently user data is recoverable from iPhones that are being sold as refurbished. A detective from the Oregon State police recovered email, photos, and other user data from an "out-of-the-box refurbished iPhone." Indeed the image to the right is a partial screen capture from the refurbished iPhone.

According to the iPhone developer Jonathan Zdziarski "all of the personal information that was sitting on [his iPhone] prior to the erase or restore is still left sitting in the unallocated blocks of the iPhone's NAND memory." In other words doing a Restore operation through iTunes will not actually fully delete all the data on the iPhone. What's needed is a low-level format of the NAND, but there doesn't seem to be a readily available means for doing this.

With the 3G iPhone presumably about to drop it seems safe to assume a lot of second-hand iPhones are about to become available on eBay, etc. It would be nice if there were some fully reliable way to ensure that all personal data is expunged from the device. The original information is on Zdziarski's blog.

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Filed under: Security, iPhone

Here's a slightly disturbing story from iPhone Atlas. Apparently user data is recoverable from iPhones that are being sold as refurbished. A detective from the Oregon State police recovered email, photos, and other user data from an "out-of-the-box refurbished iPhone." Indeed the image to the right is a partial screen capture from the refurbished iPhone.

According to the iPhone developer Jonathan Zdziarski "all of the personal information that was sitting on [his iPhone] prior to the erase or restore is still left sitting in the unallocated blocks of the iPhone's NAND memory." In other words doing a Restore operation through iTunes will not actually fully delete all the data on the iPhone. What's needed is a low-level format of the NAND, but there doesn't seem to be a readily available means for doing this.

With the 3G iPhone presumably about to drop it seems safe to assume a lot of second-hand iPhones are about to become available on eBay, etc. It would be nice if there were some fully reliable way to ensure that all personal data is expunged from the device. The original information is on Zdziarski's blog.

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So my good friend Goatberg is out blabbing about the 3G iPhone and saying we'll ship one in sixty days. Um, dude, what part of "non-disclosure agreement" do you not understand? Anyway, folks, there's nothing to worry about, and we're not doing a 3G iPhone in 60 days, or maybe we are, but not really, so keep buying the one that's out there, seriously, there's no reason not to, because even if we do put out a 3G iPhone we'll probably offer some kind of price protection or trade-in deal for people who've bought iPhones within the past 30 or 60 days or something. Don't hold me to it but that's what I'd think might be very likely or something. Peace.

FYI, Goatberg is being flown to the Valley tonight for a little chat. More as this develops.