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Posted Friday, November 06, 2009 by Adriana Lee | ||||
Imagine hanging out somewhere, minding your own business, maybe checking email or texts on your iPhone, when suddenly this message pops up on screen: 
If you have a pristine, fully sanctioned iPhone, you can breath easy. Those with jailbroken phones may want to pay attention to this, though: A Dutch hacker has figured out how to tunnel into jailbroken iPhones, via SSH, and remotely turn on the message, "Your iPhone's been hacked because it's really insecure! Please visit doiop.com/iHacked and secure your iPhone right now! Right now, I can access all your files."
Understandably, this shocked and unnerved some unsuspecting users in the Netherlands. But was it a random act of helpfulness by some magnanimous stranger? Not exactly. Once on, the alert didn’t go away until the user plunked down €5 via PayPal for instructions on how to remove the hack.
Luckily, the young man wasn’t a thief or data vandal, and no illicitly gotten info was pilfered. He was just a precocious opportunist looking to make some coin — or at least he was. His parents must’ve found out about his shenanigans, because he wound up posting the instructions for free, issuing an apology for this wacky scheme and returning the money. (Kind of like Mom marching you right back into the store to pay for that Snickers bar you pocketed, no?)
But how did he do this to begin with? Sometimes in the jailbreaking process, users forget to change the default root password on their iPhone. All he had to do was find such a handset in range. Scary stuff. Luckily, this guy wasn’t out to do damage. But the next guy might.
So consider this a PSA: If you’re going to break into that phone, don’t leave the backdoor open. Another hacker might follow you in.
Via: Engadget Mobile, TUAW, Ars Technica
iDont have a very goodcamera despite being more megapixels
iDont allow more than 256mb of installed apps
iDont do multitouch
iDont have a very good hard keyboard or soft keyboard
iDont have a better browser
iDont have even 1/8th the apps
Droid Doesnt
Additionally he was talking about androids in general, not the Droid. So of course there will be better phones running Android 2.0 (or higher in the future) that trump the iphone hardware-wise.
And wrong again, dont think Apple will remain static in the next model in 6-7 months. They'll continue to keep a step ahead.
Hardware aside, the camera performance, the app memory, multitouch, etc are all SOFTWARE problems with Android, not the hardware. No matter what you slap it on it wont change until its properly fixed.
it does do multi touch (though i find multitouch dumb)
atleast it has the option of a hard keyboard (and i think the soft keyboard is far better as is the auto fill feature) and as the not even 1/8th the apps.... dude how many did the iphone have when i launched?
the droid is launching with 12k apps
oh and it's openware so anybody can make apps
So nothing needs to be said, because your godly Android and other platforms are just as easy exploitable. When people actually start using it, there will be d-bags out there doing this kind of stuff to your platform too.
PLUS this ONLY happens if youre an idiot and left your SSH open. Some of you OBVIOUSLY have no clue what that means, its something you have to install to hack the filesystem. So this ONLY applied to jailbroken phones and ONLY IF you left SSH on (which you should anyways!)
Sorry not this mass exploit you seem to wanna make fun of.
Cant wait to see it.