IPhone vulnerability leaves your data wide open, even when using a PIN

Can't you hack just about any computer given physical access and being able to plug another computer into it?

Uh huh. Because the other phones on the market? When you plug them into a USB port? Impregnable.

Did anybody think the data was encrypted? Does anybody think a four digit pin is a sufficient key for encryption?

Apple, please don't encrypt stuff on my iPhone. It's hard enough to copy music to/from it from my Linux machine as it is.

The software to do this has been available for a long time now. iTunes requires devices to be unlocked via a passcode to perform a sync, but that's a courtesy--the AFC service running on the device allows full access to the user partition from the USB interface without restriction.

just imagine what kind of access you'd get if you plugged it into a mac? and PS. does this mean you can sync music to an iphone in linux? if so, cool!