This TRACKING thing: can't you just power off the phone?

Are you using a passcode lock?

If you serious about security you can opt to use a passcode longer than 4 digits.

You should also set the option to automatically wipe the phone after 10 failed passcode attempts.

Matt

Aren't you using a passcode lock on your phone?

Apples reply to the imagined problem:

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20110427005749/en/Apple-QA-Location-Data

Simply said: Don't not save any type of confidential data on your phone as long as it's not inside an App that encrypts its data properly. Examples for such Apps would be Lockbox or 1password.

On other mobile OS's you can install encrypted file systems but Apples security concept is that they don't give users or the apps any type of control about the system, thus you don't have this option on the iOs platform.

Matthew Morgans suggestion likely will be enough for if not so confidential data but keep in mind that all the current JB implementations work by exploiting the iOs boot loader - which means code can be run on your phone before the operating system loads - long before you have to enter the password. This takes some effort so it's likely only done if people actually expect to find something of value on your phone.

By the way, Apple finally answered on the original issue: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2384372,00.asp

Or you may read Apple's response directly.

Pretty sure we are all happy that Apple fixes the issue, even when tonefox doesn't believe Apple and calls it "imagined" (;

You read me wrong: I was referring to the imaginations of the paranoid hordes, not Apple. 😉

Matthew Morgans suggestion likely will be enough for if not so confidential data but keep in mind that all the current JB implementations work by exploiting the iOs boot loader - which means code can be run on your phone before the operating system loads - long before you have to enter the password. This takes some effort so it's likely only done if people actually expect to find something of value on your phone.

I'm not too worried.

A hacker would be dead from boredom if they say what was on my iPhone.

Matt

Aren't you using a passcode lock on your phone?

The passcode can be bypassed.