Iphone runs all programs as Root. (Not Anymore)

[coffey7]

What this video at the bottom of the link. scary stuff.

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/11/hacked-iphone-n.html

"The attacker has complete control over the iPhone," Farrow says in the video. "An attacker can read your locally stored e-mail, can look at your web-browsing and calling history, can install new applications, can run those applications -- can essentially do anything that you can do with your iPhone."

 

[7on]

Not anymore. Software 1.1.3 I think took that away.

 

[wildcardd]

The article was written in November. Over 6 months ago. I believe that the phone needs to be jailbroken before you can even attempt to do this.

 

[question fear]

Maybe the title of this thread should be changed, since it's obviously not currently the case...it's a good warning for anyone who didn't upgrade their firmware, but doesn't apply to all iPhone users.

 

[MultiFinder17]

1.0-1.1.2 ran everything as root.

1.1.3-today runs most things as user 'mobile' w/o root access.

Not gonna talk about 2.0 since I have no direct experience, but I can only imagine that it's all mostly running as 'mobile' still.

 

[Consultant]

Sorry, you are quite a few months late.

The main account is no longer Root for MONTHS.

 

[coffey7]

I'm glad they fixed it. I didn't want anyone to have their bank account cleaned out.