The iPhone SMS Hack Explained

Posted by timothy on Monday August 10, 2009 @12:12AM from the en-percent dept.

GhostX9 writes "Tom's Hardware just interviewed Charlie Miller, the man behind the iPhone remote exploit hack and winner of Pwn2Own 2009. He explains the (now patched) bug in the iPhone which allowed him to remotely exploit the iPhone in detail, explaining how the string concatenation code was flawed. The most surprising thing was that the bug could be traced back to several previous generations of the iPhone OS (he stopped testing at version 2.2). He also talks about the failures of other devices, such as crashing HTC's Touch by sending a SMS with '%n' in the text."

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%n by RMH101 · 2009-08-10 00:31 · Score: 5, Funny

Take that, HTC-fanboys!
Re:more interesting hack hinted at in last paragra by Anarchduke · 2009-08-10 02:39 · Score: 2, Funny

hmmm....dongle.

that is a really funny word.

dongle
dongle
dongle
dongle

Sorry, going a couple days without sleep makes you kind of screwy. but still...

Dongle.

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