How to interface with iOS lockdownd I used nmap to portscan my iPod Touch, and found a single port open, which was port 62078, labeled as "iphone-sync". I did some research, and found that the proccess behind it was a program called  "lockdownd" which could be used to interface with the iPod.

I was wondering if and how I could use this to interface with and possibly control my iPod.
Port 62078 is the port on which the iOS lockdown daemon listens on. Normally it is interacted with via usbmuxd which is a protocol that allows arbitrary TCP connections to be made over a USB connection.

lockdownd can be used to do a lot of nifty things with the built-in services Apple expose on unjailbroken devices. The goto library for interfacing with this service seems to be libimobiledevice which is an open-source library implementing the usbmuxd and other iOS protocols. For a better overview of the capabilities of lockdownd and the iMobileDevice library, take a look at some of the packaged tools the library provides. If you know C, the source code for these tools is here.