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How To Hijack 'Every iPhone In The World'

bluedukies8 said:
Can anyone provide a little box or direct me to where I can get one. I am pulling a prank on 20 or so of my friends that have iPhones. I have tried different characters on the iPhone itself but don't know if they would be real convincing. Thanks. :D
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Will that work?
 
Not even joking guys...I just got a blank text message from one of my friends who has an iPhone...and he won't respond back. I'm seriously kinda bugging the f*ck out
 
soo is this going to be like the millenium bug, where the world went into overdrive buying computers left, right, n centre only for nothing significant to actually happen?? im gonna go with yes. lol.
 
well since I already has texts disabled guess I won't worry eventhough I wouldn't anyway
 
I know people are going to groan over the MMS reference..... so get it out of the way.... ok done? great... now... I wonder if part of the issue with MMS in ATT with the iphone is this type of security threat. Is this threat happening overseas or just in the US? if so is it a carrier issue or a device issue. just some thoughts
 
1. I am effing glad that there are only two iPhones in my contact list. :)
a) My mom's: I haven't upgraded to 3.0 yet.
b) My cousin's: I'm the only iPhone on her contact list. =D

2. Why is the dude that found this hack, shouting it out to the world? I know it's to get Apple's attention but still. Couldn't he have just brought it up via a personal stevejobs e-mail?

Edit: It's the Y2K for iPhones. :eek::D
 
SilentPanda said:
Well if you know one iPhone users number (and they have sufficient contacts) you just try everybody. Then it just branches out from there like a phone tree... not full proof of course but at that point it doesn't matter. "Patient Zero" has already send a jillion texts which costs the attacker nothing past their initial hijack.

I'm not worried either... as crappy as my AT&T service is I doubt it'd get through anyway... :)
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You're assuming everyone will forward the message.
 
andrewsd said:
Because he has no friends and wants attention.
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uh no. He tried telling Apple repeatedly about the issue and largely got ignored. Get off your knees and step away from Jobs.

designgeek said:
I hope this is on the scale of the Zune-pocalypse that happened when Microsoft issued an update that caused all of the updated Zunes to shut down at a specific time.
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That was a chipset issue with bad code (Toshiba I believe). MS had no part or fault in the issue other than using a Toshiba chipset. The update they sent fixed it.
 
xcrunner said:
uh no. He tried telling Apple repeatedly about the issue and largely got ignored. Get off your knees and step away from Jobs.
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Since the security hole has been there since 1.0 and it has never been a problem in the past, why does this one dude need Apple to fix it RIGHT AWAY? Geeze. Now the guy shows a bunch of hackers about the exploit and they're trying to get Apple to release 3.1 before it's ready. Awesome... :mad:

I don't see this as a real threat though. I doubt anything catastrophic will happen.
 
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