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I think my point's pretty clear Ryan, why are you so hostile to it?

The jailbroken software you're using, btw - do you know what's in it? Exactly what it does and where it came from? Whose word are you taking that it's safe, and how do you know that they fully understand everything that software does?

I mentioned an extreme example before - an app that secretly dialled a premium rate number - but that's a difficult thing to hide and would be apparent the first time somebody checked their online billing. What about an app that whilst it was doing something completely innocent and useful on the face of it, was quietly uploading users contacts to a server somewhere. Think how much money you could make from illicit spammers with a list of email addresses culled from every jailbroken iPhone user out there. How much of that kind of info could you harvest from thousands of users before that code was spotted?
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Posted: 2009-07-06 19:34:38
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The SMS vulnerability exists for all iPhones because the SMS app provides access to the root user and code can take control of the device by having admin priviliges. Other apps are sandboxed so no vulnerablity here but jailbreaking bypasses most of Apples security so a potential exists and the jailbreaking community should be upfront about it.

I doubt there are enough jailbroken iPhones to take advantage of for a malicious app to be worthwile. Certainly it's creator could be traced and hackers don't usually hack other hackers anyway.

I would like to see Apple fix this SMS vulerabily pretty quickly considering the potential for misuse.

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Posted: 2009-07-06 21:43:25
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Lol so makes u guys think that the 'jailbreaking community' are not aware of these issues before u kindly brought it to our attention? It's just like owning a pc, if u click the wrong link or install the wrong software ur can compromise it, or would u suggest we all give up pcs bcus ppl write viruses? It's all about common sense
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Posted: 2009-07-06 23:23:58
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Nail on head there mate.
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Posted: 2009-07-07 10:02:11
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If "hackers don't usually hack other hackers" why is virtually every other warez download a trojan or virus?

Sorry, but this just seems to be an exploit waiting to happen. With trusting attitudes like these (it's never happened in "all these years" and all) the average jailbreaker, who these days is basically any kid who's applied an easy two minute software tweak provided to them by the dev team, is wide open to an attack like this.

Easy pickings.

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Posted: 2009-07-07 10:35:16
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Why do you care though? You're unjailbroken.

My, so you call it, 'trusting' attitude is because I know what I'm doing when it comes to the iPhone's modified FW. There is such a thing called a community out there and if people aren't prepared to learn about what they're doing to their devices then they deserve to have something happen to theirs tbh.
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Posted: 2009-07-07 11:10:42
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Not that we brought it to your attention but that you should have brought it to ours.
Everything I've read online (until now) has given me the impression that there isg no point in virus' for the iPhone and even the article I referenced said that the iPhone is even more secure than a mac - yet this level of 'percieved immunity' doesn't extend to jailbreaking and jailbreakers have known all along?...

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Posted: 2009-07-07 12:26:02
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but there is no virus, apart from the malicious premium rate dialling virus that only exists in the imagination of boinng, in the real world there hasnt been an incidence of an iphone virus, yes jailbreaking may remove some protection(that itself is theoretical) so potentially a virus can be written, same way potentially any random occurence can exist for any hypothetical situation, but the fact is when u buy a pc noone has to tell you that u have be careful of what u install, treat your phone the same way, its like buying a car and complaining that noone told you that its dangerous to pour water in the petrol tank!
do you really need a press release to inform you of the dangers of hacking something? isnt it just commonsense to assume it?
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Posted: 2009-07-07 12:36:59
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If everyone knows how to be careful with their PCs then why are there so many viruses and compromised PCs out there? And that's with antivirus widely available for free, and preinstalled on most new PCs. There's no such protection on the iPhone, jailbroken or not, so how can they be compared?

Even with the lowly amount of security provided by Microsoft, if a piece of PC software removed or bypassed (as a by-product) 80% of the security features in Windows, you'd probably want somebody to tell you, right?

I think the reaction to all this is pretty interesting.

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Posted: 2009-07-07 13:00:04
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Ok, if u need it spelt out, Jailbreaking is dangerous do it at ur own risk
I hope this satisfies ur concerns
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Posted: 2009-07-07 13:22:27
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