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Why mobile phones and the Fourth Amendment aren't friends.
  • One little hitch...

    ...which takes him to a Web page that requires a member's username and password, which the iPhone has fortunately remembered -- so the cop presses "submit,"...

    The specific hypothetical is moot -- unlike the desktop OS, the iPhone's Mobile Safari doesn't store site usernames or passwords, because the device is not considered secure. Sure, they could, theoretically, look at your browser history or browse through your bookmarks (since there's no search, name the "naughty" ones creatively).

    Besides, who views porn on the iPhone -- aside from the whole things you shouldn't do in public issue, the screen is tiny, and the interface requires both hands to zoom.