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First iPhone Worm Discovered, Rickrolls Jailbroken Phones
Unexpof writes "Users of jailbroken iPhones in Australia are reporting that their wallpapers have been changed by a worm to an image of '80s pop icon Rick Astley. This is the first time a worm has been reported in the wild for the Apple iPhone. According to a report by Sophos, the worm, which exploits users who have installed SSH and not changed the default password, hunts for other vulnerable iPhones and infects them. Users are advised to properly secure their jailbroken iPhones with a non-default password, and Sophos says the worm is not harmless, despite its graffiti-like payload: 'Accessing someone else's computing device and changing their data without permission is an offense in many countries — and just as with graffiti there is a cost involved in cleaning-up affected iPhones. ... Other inquisitive hackers may also be tempted to experiment once they read about the world's first iPhone worm. Furthermore, a more malicious hacker could take the code written by ikee and adapt it to have a more sinister payload.'"
Wow. Just, wow.
Are you fucking kidding me?
So much for the Internet being, well, an Internet.
Kid-proof tablet..
Don't call it "jailbreaking"....
That implies that you're doing something immoral/unethical (breaking someone out of jail).
Call it for what it really is... removing DRM (taking back the ownership of a device you own).
And also on a similar subject, get rid of the word "homebrew".... makes it sound like it's substandard or promoting the corporate agenda.
Call it "arbitrary code execution". (ACE)
Sure it doesn't have the same ring but it's a helluva lot more honest and defeats corporate propoganda.
Science : Proprietary , Knowledge : Open Source
Oh my, I seem to have upset an Apple fanboy with mod points.
Written by Apple??