Jonathan Zdziarski the computer security expert who alerted everyone to the existence of the iPhone Kill Switch has published a new O’Reilly book, iPhone Forensics. To promote the new book he will be holding a free webcast on September 11th 2008 13:00EST, showing live over the internet how to bypass the iPhone’s security passlock and retrieve personal data.

In this live webcast, iPhone hacker and data forensics expert Jonathan Zdziarski guides you through the steps used by law enforcement agencies to bypass the iPhone 3G’s passcode lock by creating a custom firmware bundle. Author of the upcoming book, iPhone Forensics, Jonathan has devoted much of his talent supporting law enforcement personnel with his development of a forensics toolkit that allows them to recover, process, and remove sensitive data stored on the iPhone, iPhone 3G, and iPod Touch. This live presentation is aimed towards law enforcement and anyone else who has a need to access the not-so-readily available data on an iPhone.

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