Interesting 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)"
Dugg 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.
Now 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.
The reason why you dont hear about the mac community getting hacked as much is because the security cycles are much slower than say for example a widely distributed platform such as windows. What does this mean? Macs still have bugs and viruses, theyre just more obscure and discovered more slowly because there isn't a huge industry warranting the cost of having teams of developers cater to your self-absorbed and totally pointless existences because you like the idea of paying up the ass for fancy plastic shells and a huge marketing campaign to deliver you the same technology that already exists, only with even more retarded digital licensing schemes than the rest of the industry. Oh and iphone has so many holes lets not even start with that!
tigereyeNov 16, 2007
Interesting 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)"
joeleoNov 17, 2007Submitter
Well, you could also just put the phone in Airplane mode.Wait... that won't work if Airplane mode has been hacked too.
Closed AccountNov 17, 2007
Dugg 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.
Closed AccountNov 17, 2007
Now 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.
scheisseneggerNov 17, 2007
the guy in the video, isn't that Jigsaw from the SAW movies?
vatd112Dec 7, 2007
damn...you stole my story
maxvaporOct 31, 2009
The reason why you dont hear about the mac community getting hacked as much is because the security cycles are much slower than say for example a widely distributed platform such as windows. What does this mean? Macs still have bugs and viruses, theyre just more obscure and discovered more slowly because there isn't a huge industry warranting the cost of having teams of developers cater to your self-absorbed and totally pointless existences because you like the idea of paying up the ass for fancy plastic shells and a huge marketing campaign to deliver you the same technology that already exists, only with even more retarded digital licensing schemes than the rest of the industry. Oh and iphone has so many holes lets not even start with that!