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- Tigereye, on 11/16/2007, -1/+5Interesting headline, but a bit misleading...
The "remote" part only works if you first have had local access to the iPhone, "jailbroke" it and then installed custom applications to record conversations remotely.
This is like that mac worm which is just... "I CAN OWN YOUR COMPUTER WITH THIS TROJAN WORM!!! (just type your password to give me permission first)" - inactive, on 11/17/2007, -0/+4Now we're going to hear a load of clueless Microsoft fanboys say that OS X is unsecure because this guy hacked an iPhone that runs at root. News Flash: OS X does not run at root.
What I was like to ask is this: there are millions of Microsoft clones who hate what they like to call "Apple Fanboys" and yet not one of these guys have hacked OS X. Why not? Yeah, yeah, I know the old argument about market share and the whole security through obscurity myth, but you would think that a hacker would hack into OS X or write a virus for OS X, just to be able to say "im s0 1337 taht i pwn ur @ss n00bs!"
The simple fact that it hasn't happened makes me believed that many have tried and failed. - Scheissenegger, on 11/17/2007, -0/+1the guy in the video, isn't that Jigsaw from the SAW movies?
- vatd112, on 12/07/2007, -0/+1damn...you stole my story
- pulsewave, on 11/17/2007, -0/+1This is great for parents. "... Ok sweetie, have fun at that party... Don't forget your iphone"
- JoeLeo, on 11/17/2007, -0/+1Well, you could also just put the phone in Airplane mode.
Wait... that won't work if Airplane mode has been hacked too. - inactive, on 11/17/2007, -0/+1Dugg down because the SOW client gets new exploits daily, and it doesn't matter that this one exploit is patched when there are new remote code exploits found all the time on Safari.
- inactive, on 11/17/2007, -0/+1Where does he say that you have to be on the local lan? This is an application installed with a Safari exploit, he just happened to use ssh, which could easily be set up to tunnel out to a proxy server if it were behind a firewall.
- DeathPrawn, on 11/17/2007, -1/+1Dugg down. This hack hinges on an exploit that has been patched, both by Apple in 1.1.2 and by hackers for earlier firmware.
- inactive, on 11/17/2007, -2/+1No... No you arn't. You are going to hearl loads of people telling you the iPhone has been hacked, and will continue to be hacked because of the nature of this exploit. Also, it it appears it is trivialy easy to hack iPhone and make it into part of a botnet. Hackers will do this because of the enormous popularity of the iPhone, there are lots of targets. Additionally, because of iPhone culture, hackers will have a list of additional iPhones to hack every time they access a new iPhone. So the iPhone network is the perfet target for a worm attack.
If there is confusion among newbs between the iPhone and the OSX operating system it is because Apple claims the iPhone runs OSX as its operating system. That confusion will haunt Apple because those same newbs are the ones counting on OSX for security on their desktop. Because of Apples over the top marketing the OSX brand will suffer.
But your precious desktop is as safe as it ever was.
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