Huge iPhone Cut-and-Paste Tool Security Flaw

Posted by timothy on Saturday December 13, 2008 @03:59PM from the a-sircam-you-can-pay-for dept.

Harry writes "I'm using Pastebud, the new third-party copy-and-paste solution for the iPhone. It's extremely clever, using a Web-based clipboard to get around the fact that Apple doesn't provide one on the phone. Unfortunately, it seems to be giving users access to e-mails that other Pastebud users send to their clipboards. This has happened to me repeatedly and is being reported by other users in Pastebud's Get Satisfaction support forum. Pastebud is operational and still doing this as I write, even though a message at Get Satisfaction says they're working on the problem."

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Go figure by Anonymous Coward · 2008-12-13 16:19 · Score: 0, Troll

Apple sucks
Re:You reap what you sow... by E+IS+mC(Square) · 2008-12-14 03:00 · Score: 0, Troll

All these efforts, for what? Copy-paste? It gives me immense satisfaction to know that people are getting dumber day by day for buying a smartphone which is not really that smart. Enough of iphone / apple bullshit.

Of course, you can't fault Apple in this case, but it should never have come to this. I salute all iphone users for falling for the hype.

Okay, here come macboys with their modpoints ... 3... 2.... 1....