As an Australian who wrote about the demonstrations while on campus, I gave my phone a superficial clean before flying to the U.S. I underestimated what I was up against.
Unless you do a proper secure wipe the data is recoverable. In recent versions of iOS, Apple has implemented a method whereby they encrypt the data without a decryption key before “deleting”. This should be impossible to recover if we assume some vulnerability in this method hasn’t been found and exploited by some Israeli infosec company…again.
If your freedom and safety are on the line, spend the $35 of the dumb burner.
Unless you do a proper secure wipe the data is recoverable. In recent versions of iOS, Apple has implemented a method whereby they encrypt the data without a decryption key before “deleting”. This should be impossible to recover if we assume some vulnerability in this method hasn’t been found and exploited by some Israeli infosec company…again.
If your freedom and safety are on the line, spend the $35 of the dumb burner.
Do phones actually cost $35?
Cool, thanks.