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.'"

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Gawd bless the US of TFU!

[Adolf Hitroll]

I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the United States of America, find that, due to the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States posed by acts of violence threatening the peace and stability of Iraq and undermining efforts to promote economic reconstruction and political reform in Iraq and to provide humanitarian assistance to the Iraqi people, it is in the interests of the United States to take additional steps with respect to the national emergency declared in Executive Order 13303 of May 22, 2003, and expanded in Executive Order 13315 of August 28, 2003, and relied upon for additional steps taken in Executive Order 13350 of July 29, 2004, and Executive Order 13364 of November 29, 2004."

As seen here...

So, will some clever amuritan (if such a thing does exist) explain me how the US of TFU is a democracy... If he's allowed to, of course.

Re:Excellent!

[Bentov]

Wow the apple haters are up early this morning! +3 insightful for that? Funny maybe, but insightful. The line starts at the left for all Nomad and Neo1973 comparisons and jokes...

Re:Excellent!

[Ohreally_factor]

I was also thinking about the dvd player in your kitchen.

Actually, I was wondering if this exploit had anything to do with having to drag your call to the trash to hang up.

Crash and burn iPhone

[Carson Napier]

I had hoped something like this would be discovered. It might just wake up the lemmings that flocked to a new, untried, untested in the real world device.

It annoys me the way the masses line up to get some new piece of tech thinking they'll be instantly cool and socially hip by owning one. Then it amuses me to see how much of their time is devoted to it daily... tinkering with it, showing off everything it can do to everybody they know.


.... maybe even making a phone call on it.


Then one day, the inevitable happens. It crashes and they just can't understand why. Then it crashes a lot. Then it gets trashed and becomes another techy device no one gives a crap about anymore.