A Single Text Message Can Cripple Your iPhone

[Harby]

[citation][nom]NYCGPS[/nom]its VERY easy to do.rofl. I just crashed a few of my friends with it. they were like "WTF HAPPENED?"I was likeHappy July 4th Bitches ! LOL ![/citation]

Care to share with us how?

 

[badaxe2]

Almost as bad is TH's editing staff. It really crashes the integrity of a site that can't seem to write five small paragraphs without several grammatical errors, and this happens routinely.

 

[Raidur]

A security hole in an Apple OS? IMPOSSIBLE!!!!

 

[Sicundercover]

[citation][nom]Anonymous921397r4[/nom]BS, I don't believe any of this. They just want to force people to patch the phone. Root access through an SMS? LOL[/citation]

Yea this is the same thing that was said about the holes in Safari until it was demonstrated for all the world to see.

 

[okibrian]

Yeah, and Apple will be happy to charge you $9.95 for version 3.1.

 

[matt87_50]

mabey apple will finally realise what makes a platform prone to exploitation. it's not so much lack of security, it's POPULARITY! if only this would humble apple's arrogance when it comes to "security". if only...

 

[505090]

sounds like the same hole they found in osx a while ago where they were getting into laptops and accessing the cameras and mics

 

[jacobdrj]

People should use less popular phones so as not to be a target. Go Windows Mobile. Its lack of popularity combined with its unrivaled ability to use windows based Office applications make it the phone to work when you are worried about viruses and 'just want it to work'.

Sound familiar?

[/sarcasm]