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iPhone Jailbreak Modified Into CC Sniffing Malware

Posted by timothy on from the sniff-sniff-that's-very-sad dept.

chicksdaddy writes "In a presentation at the ToorCon Hacking Conference in San Diego on Saturday, Eric Monti, a Senior Researcher at Trustwave's Spider Labs, demonstrated how to turn the popular JailbreakMe Tool for iPhones and iPads into stealthy rootkit-style malware that can monitor voice and video activity or intercept sensitive data, such as credit card magnetic stripe data from an iPhone-based transaction."

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  1. More apple news? by Windwraith · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    There are too many Apple things as of late. I get the feeling we aren't getting other news because of them.
    Not saying it's good or bad but it's making my feel reader feel like I am following an Apple-only site, which is not the purpose of Slashdot.

  2. Re:It's not about hatred. by RazorSharp · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I can think of many economic and technical arguments for open and free, but not moral ones.

    I'm going to refute myself real quick because this just occurred to me. In educational and government settings, open and free is a moral imperative because without these conditions, knowledge can be kept secret by those who have it and those who can afford it. A society cannot be free without knowledge, and I doubt anyone would argue that it's ethical to limit another's freedom. But with private entities, such as corporations and individuals, there is no imperative to share knowledge. A government that keeps secrets is tyrannical, an education system that only caters to those with money oppresses the poor.

    So the point of the post stands, Apple is in no way morally obligated to be open and free. But the statement is refuted: in some cases there is a moral imperative for open and free.

    Of course, from this perspective, MS's pursuit of making OOXML a government standard is even more unethical.

    --
    "From the depths of my skeptical and rationalist soul, I ask the Lord to protect me from California touchie-feeliedom."
  3. Re:How much was he paid by bonch · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I mentioned this elsewhere--I think the bizarre level of Apple hatred is due to astroturfers with a vested interest in Android. The goal is to make Apple look bad and rally the hardcore geeks against them.

    Notice how many anonymous posters there are that criticize Apple in a story. You can already see a few posting to this one. Something fishy is going on.