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Security Flaw Found That Allows Control of iPhone
i_like_spam writes "The NYTimes is running a story about an iPhone flaw that has been found and documented by researchers from Independent Security Evaluators. Attackers were able to gain full control of the iPhone either through WiFi or by visiting a website with malicious code. The exploit will be demonstrated at BlackHat on Aug. 2nd at 4:45pm. Until then, 'details on the vulnerability, but not a step-by-step guide to hacking the phone, can be found at www.exploitingiphone.com, which the researchers said would be unveiled today.'"
Dude, I couldn't give a rusty f*** if somebody has "nicer things" than me. I have the cheapest phone available because, shock horror, I just want to use it to make calls and not to act as a mixture between a fashion accessory and an invitation to get mugged.
I have no problem with people paying top dollar for an over-hyped PDA. I just find the endless fanfare over this incremental advance extremely irritating.
Go ahead, mod me flamebait again. Stinking iPhone users, the lot of you.
Peter
Wowsers you get irritated easily - other people being pleased with their purchasing decisions is "extremely irritating" when those decisions differ from yours.
Sure if they are using said iPhone to play loud music, or to reflect the sun into your eyes, or something. Hope you're taking your blood pressure meds.
This has reached the point of silliness. Efforts to “crack open” the iPhone have been met with large degrees of success. As has been reported elsewhere, a developer tool chain is in the early stages. The iPhone has been owned and the genie is out of the bottle. Apple, why not just open it up officially? Face up to the obvious fact that it is a hand-held computer with decent horsepower that many technology geeks will want to use creatively and constructively. Releasing official development tools will give a segment of the market what it clearly wants anyway (look at the rapid progress hackers have made) and give incentive for us hold-outs to buy-in. How much simpler does this have to get?
Why bother.