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Hackers Find Remote iPhone Crack
Al writes "Two researchers have found a way to run unauthorized code on an iPhone remotely. This is different than 'jailbreaking,' which requires physical access to the device. Normally applications have to be signed cryptographically by Apple in order to run. But Charles Miller of Independent Security Evaluators and Vincenzo Iozzo from the University of Milan found more than one instance in which Apple failed to prevent unauthorized data from executing. This means that a program can be loaded into memory as a non-executable block of data, after which the attacker can essentially flip a programmatic switch and make the data executable. The trick is significant, say Miller and Iozzo, because it provides a way to do something on a device after making use of a remote exploit. Details will be presented next month at the Black Hat Conference in Las Vegas." The attack was developed on version 2.0 of the iPhone software, and the researchers don't know if it will work when 3.0 is released.
Isn't it lovely when the text on /. is dumbed down to suit the readers of Doanld Duck ?
I would have thought that "geekdom" ment more than this :p
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Your secular messiah is a failure.
Gitmo still open? Check.
Troops still in Iraq? Check.
Started trade war with Canada? Check.
Pissed off the Brits multiple times? Check.
Outspent Bush in only 4 months, with no end to the spending in sight? Check.
Printed dollars like they were grocery store coupons? Check.
Rewarded union cronies by handing them the carcasses of 2 failed auto companies? Check.
Guaranteeing future oil wars by allowing Iran to build nuclear power plants, but not allowing America to do the same? Check.
Tens of millions of stimulus dollars lost to fraud & abuse, with none of the promised oversight? Check.
Bypassed Congressional oversight of your cabinet by appointing nearly 2 dozen unelected, unaccountable policy "Czars?" Check.
Still spying on Americans' phone calls? Check.
Conducted Great American Apology tour twice? Check.
Failed to take the Muslim world to task for their never-ending egregious human rights abuses? Check.
*This one is my favorite. You somehow managed to create some bizarre moral equivalence between Muslims beating rape victims to death, and Westerners looking down upon Muslim women in the West who voluntarily subjugate themselves to men by wearing a veil. You didn't say it in so many words, but the implied message was there. Such a twisted view could only exist in a sick, twisted liberal mind. The fact is that women and non-believers living in the middle east are subjected to all kinds of horrors in the name of Islam that people would be appalled by here if they actually bothered to pay attention to world news.
Heads up, Obongo: when the summer job market dries up and is no longer able to contribute to your inflated job numbers, and when interest rates reach Jimmy Carter levels, people are going to realize they've been sold a lie. When N. Korea nukes S. Korea and Japan, you're going to be exposed for the impotent milquetoast that you are.