You clearly didn't read his/her post. Your previous scaremongering post about jailbreaking also leads me to believe you either have a poor understanding of comprehension or you are trolling.
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New Malware Allows Hackers to Access Personal Information on Jailbroken iPhones
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You clearly didn't read his/her post. Your previous scaremongering post about jailbreaking also leads me to believe you either have a poor understanding of comprehension or you are trolling.
...beside is way more fun to JB and play around my JB iPhone than to play with 99% of the over 50,000 games distributed in the App Store.
WTF man i read this thread on my l33t h4x3d iPh0n3 and now its bricked, omg!!!11!!eleven! your virus pwn3e|> me
OK, i need to take my meds now....
Common sense, thank dog its long dead.
Change all default passwords BEFORE putting the system online
Don't run services/process you don't need
Understand what each service/process is that is running
Me too,Hah!
But with all the passwords i have to change on a weekly basis I have started doing the same to my Dog. Now we are both confused.
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Now he answers to...
Admin, God, TrustNo1, jesus, password, qwerty, ,monkey("My Key" in french), love, 12345678, princess, letmein, master, internet, whatever, starwars, matrix, superman and football.
>;p
HaHaHahahaha I'm still waiting far a MATTE screen order option for an iMac .
I'd write a list but i binned the first one while waiting for MMS on my iPhone.. Oh... and changeable SMS Tones.
While I agree with you, the interesting thing about this exploit to me is that these are devices which are not behind NAT routers or firewalls (unlike many home computers these days), and to which you do not need to be in close physical proximity (like a wireless router).
Plus, these devices have unique hardware (GPS, digital compass) that could be used to invade privacy in a way not possible with most other hardware which is online these days. Imagine a backdoor on your phone that let somebody track every where you go, could even tell what direction you were currently looking in.
And since iPhones are very likely to traverse multiple, physical networks, the "virality" of this worm has a whole new dimension.
There is nothing positive about this news at all. Though I am not surprised that the righteous immature fanbois here are voting this as positive, get a life honestly!. How can you consider this to be good? We are talking about peoples personal information being stolen through an exploit.
Also drop the righteous BS about users that have not changed their default password deserve this, the reality is that the average iphone user has no idea what SSH is. I hope you realize that a very large group of these jailbreakers are huge apple fans, and they have jailbroken their phones to unlock them. This is the group of Apple fans who have gone out of their way to get an iphone in countries where Apple has not setup their bloody $$$$ exclusive carriers. Fans that have gone out of thier way to get an iphone and have paid extra for them, early adopters that gave apple free publicity around the world. These same people would have bought their phones unlocked, knowing nothing about the process of jailbreaking, and now might get screwed over.
It was Apples own damn greed that created the unlocking community. If your from the States, well awesome for you, but outside of the states there are alot of diehard Apple fans that went out of their way to get iphones early, they did not deserve this! For the ones with some tech knowledge, they can protect themselves, though alot are going to get screwed.
Also drop the righteous BS about users that have not changed their default password deserve this, the reality is that the average iphone user has no idea what SSH is. I hope you realize that a very large group of these jailbreakers are huge apple fans, and they have jailbroken their phones to unlock them. This is the group of Apple fans who have gone out of their way to get an iphone in countries where Apple has not setup their bloody $$$$ exclusive carriers. Fans that have gone out of thier way to get an iphone and have paid extra for them, early adopters that gave apple free publicity around the world. These same people would have bought their phones unlocked, knowing nothing about the process of jailbreaking, and now might get screwed over.
It was Apples own damn greed that created the unlocking community. If your from the States, well awesome for you, but outside of the states there are alot of diehard Apple fans that went out of their way to get iphones early, they did not deserve this! For the ones with some tech knowledge, they can protect themselves, though alot are going to get screwed.
This is EXACTLY why I did not jailbreak my iPhone when I first bought it over a year ago. Security.
Lol, there is nothing hard about changing your password. Do that and no one can touch you.
aside from the "jailbreakers are idiots" why bother posting the rest?
you buy a closed system, knowing full well it is closed, break it, and then the security is bad? shocking!
my ssh access password is still alpine! hack me!
ps i always just disable ssh via sbsettings toggle when i'm not using it anyway
ps i always just disable ssh via sbsettings toggle when i'm not using it anyway
And it's really Apple, trying to get people to not Jailbreak
If you jail break, either change thebdefault password that the apple techs would use or turn off ssh.
After being with AT&T for almost 10 years, i jail broke my phone last month now I have teethering which I've only used twice just to see how well it worked and it was faster than my wifes moms dsl. But the coolist things are the utlilities kr flash player. Free Tom Tom. Video in non 3gs phones, quick swipe, mem free apps, other gps nav free apps plus hundereds more.
But the best is gv mobile. You add that number to a list and all calls made via that number are free. Also the reason I jail broke it. Plus of course texts of voice mails and controlling any phone to ring when that number is called.
Peace.
Wait so let me get this straight Intego...
In order to fall victim to this worm you'd have to do the following:
1. Be so technically savvy as to have the inclination to install OpenSSH to remote access your iPhone from a command line. (A shockingly small minority within a minority of owners)
2. Be somehow that technically savvy yet, at the same time be so technically inept as to forget to set a password.
3. Seek out or stumble into the same LAN as your attacker does right at the time he decides to start looking for iPhones to hack.
4. Somehow indicate to him that you have a jailbroken iphone so he can get out his and scan yours for goodies.
5. Stick around long enough for him to download all your stuff.
By my reading you'd have to be the world's biggest dumb*** to fall for this. More security firm (maybe Apple?) FUD....If you are installing things on your iphone and you dont want to play in Apple's sandbox, know what you are doing. Otherwise, you deserve what you get.
Gah!
/endrant
PS- I read the forums and site a lot but this got me so hacked off I signed up just to reply....
In order to fall victim to this worm you'd have to do the following:
1. Be so technically savvy as to have the inclination to install OpenSSH to remote access your iPhone from a command line. (A shockingly small minority within a minority of owners)
2. Be somehow that technically savvy yet, at the same time be so technically inept as to forget to set a password.
3. Seek out or stumble into the same LAN as your attacker does right at the time he decides to start looking for iPhones to hack.
4. Somehow indicate to him that you have a jailbroken iphone so he can get out his and scan yours for goodies.
5. Stick around long enough for him to download all your stuff.
By my reading you'd have to be the world's biggest dumb*** to fall for this. More security firm (maybe Apple?) FUD....If you are installing things on your iphone and you dont want to play in Apple's sandbox, know what you are doing. Otherwise, you deserve what you get.
Gah!
/endrant
PS- I read the forums and site a lot but this got me so hacked off I signed up just to reply....
Fair enough, but I still stick to the fact that if you install SSH (or any other app for that matter), it is your responsibility to know what it is, and how to use it.
So simply following directions and installing a software on your phone (just because a guy (usually between the age of 16-18) on YouTube says so) and not giving a second thought to what you have just done, in my eyes, is a disaster waiting to happen ... and should anything go wrong ... I believe it is the sole responsibility of your negligence. (not talking about you
) KrayzieKray