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l3v1ck
What's a life?
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 10:21 am
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Location: The Right Side of the Pennines (metaphorically & geographically)
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There's a new greater threat out there. News CLICKY
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| Mon Nov 23, 2009 12:02 pm |
 
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LaptopAcidXperience
Occasionally has a life
Joined: Fri May 08, 2009 10:01 am
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Location: Harrogate
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Anyone suspicious that these worms are only hitting jail broken phones, although it makes complete sense only these phones are being targeted as a result of the hacking process.
I'm not, apple simply couldn't risk being implicated in such a thing.
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big_D
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Location: Bramsche
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Yeah, I saw the report on that on Cnet last week... It is just a further implementation of the one a couple of weeks ago about charging €5 to secure jailbroken iPhones still using the default passwords...
Somebody has taken the code and gone a step further... If you are dumb enough to jailbreak an iPhone without knowing what you are actually doing, you deserve what you get.
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james016
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Nope as it is only affecting phones that have SSH installed (a manual process not done by jailbreaking) and the owners not changing their passwords. _________________ My Flickr PageNow with added ball and chain.
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| Mon Nov 23, 2009 12:51 pm |
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timark_uk
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Location: Belfast
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Me and a couple of mates were just discussing this here in work, and came to the same conclusion : +3 Mark
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big_D
What's a life?
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One of the key steps for jailbreaking an iPhone is installing/activating SSH. It isn't necessary to keep it running afterwards, but considering most people who jailbreak their iPhones don't have a clue what SSH is... 
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