Not only does the iPhone Spy Stick seem to serve a particularly shady raison d’etre, but it seems ready to kick you squarely between your wallet’s thighs while it does so.
Basically, the iPhone Spy Stick is a dongle that can be plugged into the bottom of any iPhone running iOS 3.x. Once connected, it will begin slurping up all of the private data you not only thought was secure, but might have even deleted, including internet history, contacts, text messages, photos and more.
That functionality isn’t necessarily evil, of course: data recovery can be totally benign. The name of the product, though, hints at more insidious motives, and the price is certainly extortionate: $199. As a commenter over at Gizmodo notes, that’s a lot of money for a “SQLite front-end and a fake iTunes data layer server.” You’ve got to be really suspicious of your spouse’s infidelities to drop bank on this.
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