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Losing your smarpthone is bad enough. But if you lose your iPhone and don’t issue a remote wipe command (available for free with the Find My iPhone app) then you could find yourself in a world of hurt. Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute Secure Information Technology (Fraunhofer SIT) can jailbreak and decrypt passwords from the iPhone’s keychain — for say, your Gmail account, corporate VPN, home WiFi, and MS Exchange — in about six minutes using existing, known exploits. Sorry kids, your flimsy lockscreen passcode won’t help. Video proof, after the break.

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There’s been no shortage of cases for Verizon’s flavor of the iPhone 4 — Ballistic, iLuv, iKit, AGF and Scosche have already announced ones of their own — but if you’re looking for a mainstay in the industry, you can now turn to Mophie. The company’s life-doubling Juice Pack Air has been ever-so-slightly reengineered to work with both AT&T and Verizon iPhone 4 units, with initial shipments expected by the end of the month. At first it’ll ship in black with silver accents, while soft-touch red and glossy white versions are scheduled for release shortly thereafter. Still $79.95, and still awfully hard to resist for 3G power users.

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If these screens look vaguely familiar, that’s because they’re essentially the same ones Apple has been using to test the iPhone’s various components since day one. Problem is, this is apparently a production Verizon iPhone that was shipped out to an actual customer this week, which… well, let’s just put it this way: it’s not going to help you play Angry Birds any faster. They’ve tried to restore the phone using iTunes to no avail, so here’s the million-dollar question: collectible or worthless return? Hit the gallery for a couple more shots.

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Remember that new confession app we told you about yesterday? Senior church officials in the U.S. were pretty keen on the thing, giving “Confession: A Roman Catholic App” the thumbs up. The Vatican, however, wants to clear something up.

Vatian spokesman Father Federico Lombardi told the press, “One cannot speak in any way of confessing via iPhone.” The confessor and a priest have to be in the same room for the whole confession thing to work, apparently. He added, “This cannot be substituted by any IT application.”

The app itself is intended to supplement, not replace in-person confession.