Throwing Light On Elcomsoft's Analysis of Smartphone Password Managers

An anonymous reader writes "Security firm Elcomsoft analyzed 17 iOS and BlackBerry password-keeping apps and found their actual security levels well below their claimed level of protection. With additional digging, however, Glenn Fleishman at TidBITS found that Elcomsoft's criticisms rely on physical access to the apps' data stores, and, for some of the more common apps, on the user employing a short (6 characters or fewer) or numeric password. In other words, there really isn't much risk here."

Re:WTH

[binarylarry]

I think Mr Fleishmen is well aware. After all, he is a columnist for an Apple magazine and has a degree in art.

Elcomsoft has only cracked bluray, dvd, HDDVD and most other forms of commercially available encryption. They're practically noobs and probably don't even own in iPhone between them (LOLZ!).

Re:WTH

[jhoegl]

How can something be "roughly equal" to something else? o.O