____/ Peter Köhlmann on Wednesday 04 July 2007 06:59 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> ____/ Peter Köhlmann on Tuesday 03 July 2007 18:25 : \____
>>
>>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/07/03/iphone_hacking_progress/
>>>
>>> So much for Hadron Quarks claim that apple provides well working, tested
>>> stuff to its users
>>>
>>> Another example of apple being as incompetent as MS
>>
>> As I said when posting this yesterday, the iPhone is now everyonesPhone,
>> not just I-Phone. The little gadget is open for everyone to access, given
>> the perfect exploit. How will this be patched? Did many people watch the
>> code before the release? Could a trapdoor be deliberately included. This
>> is of course the conspiracy theorist's point of view, but remember which
>> phone provider iPhone made friends with. The friend of the friend is the
>> NSA.
>>
>
> Nope, not trapdoor.
> The iPhone Safari exhibits some of the same security botches like its
> windows cousin. Apparently they share at least partly the same codebase.
> Those guys have successfully cracked the iPhone Safari. It would be possible
> then to dial expaensive phone-numbers without the user having any clue
> about it
> They also cracked the default user and root passwords. Because apple decided
> it was safe enough to encrypt them with DES.
Interesting stuff. I didn't know that.
> Nope, apple goofed here big time, and until they reflash all the units
> already sold with safer software, this could turn out "real bad (tm)" fast.
Yes, that's just what I though. It could turn out to be rather bad because one
hole might be related to another. Just think of Sony battery recalls. Also
think about taking units off the shelf and postposing sales until examination
of the code is carries out. Safari on Windows was a mess, security-wise. Not
the case with Firefox even though the code is out there for all to poke with a
big stick...
> And they provided another example of apple delivering crappy stuff.
> Although, according to Hadron Quark, this can't happen
What is Hadron?
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