Star Worm for Jailbroken iPhones with Default Root Passwords
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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Thumbs up Thom
by memson on Tue 10th Nov 2009 10:05 UTC
memson
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2006-01-01

Nice, balanced, level-headed. No sensationalism. Nice work!!

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RE: Thumbs up Thom
by hankheathen on Wed 11th Nov 2009 02:23 in reply to "Thumbs up Thom"
hankheathen Member since:
2009-05-13

I'd like to add my voice to memson's sentiments.

Thanks Thom

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