Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 9th Nov 2009 23:39 UTC
Apple The web went aflame today with headlines like "First iPhone worm discovered", and many other variants. Most of those headlines, however, left out a very important little fact which diminishes the impact of the news considerably: it only affects jailbroken iPhones with SSH installed, and with default root passwords.
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Smart and dumb?
by Delgarde on Tue 10th Nov 2009 01:13 UTC
Delgarde
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2008-08-19

So, it affects people who are smart enough to know how to jailbreak an iPhone. And who are stupid enough to leave a default password in place?