If you make a backup of an iPhone with a passcode enabled on it, the backup is protected by the same passcode. Elcomsoft has a new utility out that will recover that password from the encrypted backup itself and use that to open the backup file. Makes you feel awesome about how secure your iPhone backups are doesn’t it?
The utility is screamingly easy to use, simply point it at your iPhone backup file and it grinds away until it recovers the original plain-text password that protects encrypted backups containing address books, call logs, SMS archives, calendars, camera snapshots, voice mail and email account settings, applications, Web browsing history and cache.
I’m sure there are legitimate uses for this utility, but it will most likely be applied to getting access to the iPhone’s of cheating spouses and criminals.
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