Is it available in the UK yet? I'm impressed at how quickly Apple react to these rare situations. If it was Microsoft we'd have to wait until the end of the year for an update!
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Apple to Release Fix for iPhone SMS Vulnerability on Saturday?
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Is it available in the UK yet? I'm impressed at how quickly Apple react to these rare situations. If it was Microsoft we'd have to wait until the end of the year for an update!
That is why Microsoft made patch releases a standard monthly event. If it happens a certain time every month, it isn't a story. Apple has much to learn about security. In fact, they are going to have to come down off their pedestal in regards to being 'virus-free,' or this will continue.
Wirelessly posted (iPhone 3GS (White, 32GB): Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 3_0 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/528.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile/7A341 Safari/528.16)
Yup. Jailbreaking the 3GS will make your phone 4000% better. Seriously.
(which is why I won't be upgrading to 3.0.1 until it is jailbroken. No way in hell I'd go back to stock now!!)
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Yup. Jailbreaking the 3GS will make your phone 4000% better. Seriously.
(which is why I won't be upgrading to 3.0.1 until it is jailbroken. No way in hell I'd go back to stock now!!)
I call BS on this post since you are on 3.1 already. If not then I call BS on your other post :
You have been going on and on about how much you hate 3.0 and are not going to upgrade. Which is it mate.....?
I have 2 iPhones. One iPhone is my working iPhone... it has 2.2.1 on it because that's what I prefer. The OTHER iPhone is my testing iPhone. I have 3.1 beta 3 on it. It's what I use to find and submit bugs to Apple. Happy now?
NO!!
You cannot determine whether data stream is bad or good unless you open that data stream and read what's in it. What you're suggesting is that carriers should read our SMS messages and decide if we should receive it or not. Can you say censorship?
It was never designed to be secure. After all SMS (short messaging system) was originally meant for tech guys to send test messages between link stations. Kind of like email, zero security, zero unnecessary overhead.
It was only mid-90's until SMS was offered to general public and even then the carriers did not see the business opportunity. After all, they were in the business of selling phone CALLS to the customers
Unfortunately many operators around the world are already filtering SMS messages, for both anti-spam and anti-competitive reasons. AT&T themselves filter out text messages with an alphanumeric sender ID (i.e. "Wallmart"). That said, I doubt their existing technology has the capability to filter out messages with a specific UDH (User Data Header, the part of an SMS message used in this exploit), and I'm sure the attackers could vary the UDH anyway. You can't just block all UDHs, they're used in things like concatenated (long/multipart) SMS messages.
The industry seems hellbent on breaking SMS, which is, on the whole, a pretty great standard.
But no, this is a software vulnerability, not an SMS vulnerability, hence Apple's and Google's responses.
No kidding. Thespaz can never make up his mind....doesn't know if it's day or night out!