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Introduction On May 7, 2013, as a German court ruled that the iPhone maker must alter its company policies for handling customer data, since these policies have been shown to violate Germany’s privacy laws. The news first hit the Web via Bloomberg, who reports that: "Apple Inc. (AAPL), already facing a U.S. privacy lawsuit over its information-sharing practices, was told by a German court to change its rules for handling customer data. A Berlin court struck down eight of 15 provisions in Apple’s general data-use terms because they deviate too much from German laws, a consumer group said in a statement on its website today. The court said Apple can’t ask for “global consent” to use customer data or use information on the locations of customers. While Apple previously requested “global consent” to use customer data, German law requires that customers know in detail exactly what is being requested. Further to this, Apple may no longer ask for permission to access the names, a...

Introduction   This post is the second part of the series " The Hackers Guide To Dismantling IPhone " and is going to describe how to perform all types of iPhone network attacks on any iPhone . This post is also going to explain how to set up the testing environment for hacking an iPhone also.The iPhone provides developers with a platform to develop two types of applications. Web based applications – which uses JavaScript, CSS and HTML-5 technologies Native iOS applications- which are developed using Objective-C and Cocoa touch API. This article mainly covers the pen testing methodology of native iOS applications. However, some of the techniques explained here can also be used with web-based iOS applications. A simulator does not provide the actual device environment, so all the penetration testing techniques explained in this article are specific to a physical device. iPhone 4 with iOS 5 (maybe iOS6) will be used for the following demonstrations. To perform pentestin...