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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I heard about this "iPhone virus" on BBC radio today, and I was wondering to myself "is this about the SSH default password vulnerability?" Surely, for the mainstream press to be touting this as an iPhone virus is sensationalism of the first order.
Though strictly speaking it is a virus, it's a benign virus that exploits an extremely obvious vulnerability that's open in a very small proportion of iPhone users.
That being said, I did go ahead and change my root password in my jailbroken iPhone today. I don't want to get Rickrolled. :-)