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iPhone Root Password Hacked in Three Days
unPlugged-2.0 writes "An Australian developer blog writes that the iPhone root password has already been cracked. The story outlines the procedure but doesn't give the actual password. According to the story: 'The information came from an an official Apple iPhone restore image. The archive contains two .dmg disk images: a password encrypted system image and an unencrypted user image. By delving into the unencrypted image inquisitive hackers were able to discover that all iPhones ship with predefined passwords to the accounts 'mobile' and 'root', the last of which being the name of the privileged administration account on UNIX based systems.' Though interesting, it doesn't seem as though the password is good for anything. The article theorizes it may be left over from development work, or could have been included to create a 'false trail' for hackers."
Now we can make phone calls as root!
...or could have been included to create a 'false trail' for hackers."
Or it was created to generate topics on Slashdot when it's discovered...
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More secure than Microsoft whose default passwords are usually blank.
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what your country did to you
Yeah? That'd be great, since I *love* Jim Nabors...
Is this like the geek equivalent of the frat-boy phrase, "I'd hit it!"?
Do not anger the worm.
Since iPhones don't have any kind of access that makes this "discovery" meaningful
That pretty much sums up how useless this article was.
By the way, if anyone wants it, you can have the combination to my luggage.
Apple is fucked. Btw "root alpine" is an anagram for "rape lotion", how appropriate.
Assuming the iPhone is hacked to the point where it's easily modifiable, yes, it will have the opposite effect in the extremely small niche market.
In the mainstream, this can easily get spun as the iPhone is extremely insecure, and has been "broken into", causing normal people to steer very clear.
Doesn't the price tag already do that?
http://xkcd.com/386/
The article left out the detail that the reason these passwords won't do you any good is that you only get 3 tries to enter them before your locked out. Goop lick.
--- What?
If it isn't one of the following I'd be shocked:
123 000 999 666
Those four will open 99% of all luggage in the world that doesn't contain a laptop, cash or a gun.
~ a low user id is no indication I have a clue what I'm talking about.
The article theorizes it may be left over from development work, or could have been included to create a 'false trail' for hackers.
Even better, I suspect this is the major reason Leopard was delayed. iPhone's software was completed all along: all those OSX developers were assigned to create numerous false trails for hackers, on the iPhone.
Guess I better change my ATM pin.
And 23% of those that do? And 69% of those that contain two of the three? And what percent of statistics are complete bullshit again?
Well, I'd just say that someone who reads/posts to /. doesn't fit *my* vision of of a "normal person". Maybe that's geekist of me.
http://xkcd.com/386/
You've got it upside down.
The password for alpine is root, the dottie user account password is mobile.
The Admin and the Engineer
Oh, you mean it's like a law degree! Got it. My mistake.
http://xkcd.com/386/
Well, first of all, thank you. And second of all, I wish you had mod points, too. Except that if you *had* had them, and then you posted, they'd be gone...so I guess it's a moo point, after all. (Yes, that was a Friends reference and not an inadvertant misuse, just in case anyone was wondering.)
http://xkcd.com/386/
Once again, though, my OP is correct. When I see someone carrying a MacBook Pro(tm), wearing an iPod(tm) and talking on an iPhone(tm), the *last* thing I think is, "That is a normal person."
http://xkcd.com/386/
Are you a grammar Nazi? I'm trying to improve my English; please correct my errors!
Anyone find her iphone yet? Id like to see another movie....
Everyone's got it upside down.
The root password is au!dle
The mobile password is a!++op
I don't get it. What world doesn't contain a laptop, cash, or a gun, and yet has luggage?
Exactly, because the proper term is "fanboi".
The *first* thing you think is, "that is a stupid person." Am I right?
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And no 3 number combination will open *that* luggage. Smart burglars just say no to sapient pearwood.
If J.K.R wrote Windows: Puteulanus fenestra mortalis!