iPhone Forensics: Recovering Evidence, Personal Data & Corporate Assets is a new book from O'Reilly Media that "gives IT professionals, security personnel, and law enforcement the knowledge needed to conduct forensic analysis of an iPhone."
Looks useful if you plan to sell your old iPhone.
This book shows the reader how to recover sensitive information from the device and perform disaster recovery, and walks the reader through various scenarios for recovering different types of information. With this guide, the reader will be able to effectively recover live, lost, or deleted email, photos, voicemail, Google Maps searches, typing cache, and other sensitive data retained by the iPhone. The reader will learn advanced techniques including data recovery, properly preserving and preparing evidence, and technical techniques such as bypassing basic passcode security or recovering data even after a full restore (by say, a disgruntled employee). Finally, the reader will learn how to properly wipe an iPhone clean of all data for resale or reissue - something Apple's own restore process fails to do.
(Disclosure: I'm editor-in-chief of MAKE, which is published by O'Reilly.)
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I wonder if it'll be banned in Texas where we now need to have a PI License to do computer forensics, by law, as of the start of this month.
iPhone software 2.0 does a full wipe (takes about an hour to complete) when you "Erase all content and settings"