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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Comment by frood
by frood on Tue 10th Nov 2009 06:34 UTC
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Reminds me of my old iphone. I left the root password as alpine when I installed SSH. People at work had much delight rebooting my phone over the office wifi :|

Edited 2009-11-10 06:35 UTC