Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 9th Nov 2009 23:39 UTC
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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No you are not setting anything straight. It is quite easy to escape iPhone sandboxing. SMS runs on iPhone not sandboxed. Maybe check Miller's reports about "security" of sandboxed iPhone (crashing whole OS). The only real thing Apple "sandboxing" does is keep users from not buying apps from Apple store and extract maximum revenue.
What is funny is that Apple wants to patent crippling (ehmm sandboxing) cellphone devices (http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d...)
iPhone is not safe device, never was. If Apple was smart they will open iPhone apps to keep users happy and eliminate jailbreak problems.
I don't need jailbroke blackberry to run (safely) SSH.