Hijacking All iPhones via SMS

[angiepangie]

^^BOOOO. California pwnnss
Even though I am not a fan of CA myself

[gcastro723]

sweet, well yeah nothing comes to Texas ASAP so maybe we're free for a couple off hours lol, i've turned my phone off already

[StealthBravo]

^^BOOOO. California pwnnss
Even though I am not a fan of CA myself

California pwns its residents with debt

[gcastro723]

^ burn!

[PhoneLine]

ok before anyone else goes mad with SSH and passwd on their iPhone I'd like to give you what I think about this "exploit" from a developers point of view. The square described in the post is a character that the iphone cannot display. The likelihood that this will do anything more than at the absolute most crash the messages app is extremely minimal. If your phone is unjailbroken the kernel will not execute unsigned code even through an overflow of some kind so this mythical "root access" is total BS. As for jailbroken phones, code just maybe could be executed but its very unlikely. The risk is just not there. I will sleep soundly with my iPhone on and working not afraid of it being hijacked and come Thursday when nothing happens I'll be here to say I told you so. My guess is someone just came up with this mildly believable stunt to get attention. (probably a Verizon customer). Thank you for your time and happy jailbreaking.

Didn't the guy that plans to reveal the exploit work for the NSA or something like that? I too hope nothing becomes of this, but I think there is something to it if he's made these claims.

Edit: Take a look at this:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-10299378-245.html

[angiepangie]

California pwns its residents with debt

Yea.. well I bet you guys don't have the Terminator as your governor!

[StealthBravo]

Thank God for Rick Perry

Only thing Arnold did was terminate yalls budget

[angiepangie]

Arnold's helping with the debt...
It's us schoolkids that are suffering from it
And the teachers.. but it's their fault for becoming teachers

Didn't the guy that plans to reveal the exploit work for the NSA or something like that? I too hope nothing becomes of this, but I think there is something to it if he's made these claims.

I'm pretty sure there is something to it.
Maybe it'll be like jailbreakme.com
that took advantage of a MASSIVE flaw (or at least from what I've heard)

[gcastro723]

StealthBravo i agree

although i think we needed that guy that was gonna legalize green for governor, i bet all those californicators would be all on texas

[A3gOwner]

This is crazy! So the way I take this is it's some sort of buffer overflow, that dumps into a root terminal. There have been many many of these around for windows users for quite sometime. I have really no expirience with the iPhone os, but osx and Linux do not handle this type thing quite the sameway as windows, and actually getting dumped into a root terminal could be possible but are very very rare. So I still have faith in *nix and this really doesn't worry me, what does tho is if it dumps to a "mobile" terminal. What I mean by this is a terminal logged in as mobile, which would give some access but not root. So now to change passwd(s) and Check permissions. Sorry if this makes no sense I'm bout half drunk trying to really grasp this, could be bad.

[StealthBravo]

^ Cash isn't legal here? ... oh nvm

[kissdaring]

Agreed my friend this is so bumb that it is stupid, to all of you "read the mans post and stop tripping out"

ok before anyone else goes mad with SSH and passwd on their iPhone I'd like to give you what I think about this "exploit" from a developers point of view. The square described in the post is a character that the iphone cannot display. The likelihood that this will do anything more than at the absolute most crash the messages app is extremely minimal. If your phone is unjailbroken the kernel will not execute unsigned code even through an overflow of some kind so this mythical "root access" is total BS. As for jailbroken phones, code just maybe could be executed but its very unlikely. The risk is just not there. I will sleep soundly with my iPhone on and working not afraid of it being hijacked and come Thursday when nothing happens I'll be here to say I told you so. My guess is someone just came up with this mildly believable stunt to get attention. (probably a Verizon customer). Thank you for your time and happy jailbreaking.

[gcastro723]

^ Cash isn't legal here? ... oh nvm

lol yeah lets go with that, plus californians need that too, hollywood isn't what it used to be

[angiepangie]

Agreed my friend this is so bumb that it is stupid, to all of you "read the mans post and stop tripping out"

It's so bumb that it's stupid?

[StealthBravo]

^ LMAO haha

[angiepangie]

lol yeah lets go with that, plus californians need that too, hollywood isn't what it used to be

There are parts of Hollywood that's rich and parts that are poor.. just like everywhere else.
We have the richest of the rich though (and the most expensive houses...)

[gcastro723]

yeah, and all i have here in houston is SUPER SUPER heated air, it hurts so much you have to squint to see

but really angiepangie, visit TX one day.. hey i just realized im following you on my twitter! lol

[kissdaring]

i was trying to make a point here :P

It's so bumb that it's stupid?

[PhoneLine]

Agreed my friend this is so bumb that it is stupid, to all of you "read the mans post and stop tripping out"

So the c-net writer who had it done to her phone is lying?

Researchers attack my iPhone via SMS | InSecurity Complex - CNET News

[StealthBravo]

yeah, and all i have here in houston is SUPER SUPER heated air, it hurts so much you have to squint to see

but really angiepangie, visit TX one day.. hey i just realized im following you on my twitter! lol

San Antonio is hot and humid but nothing compared to Houston

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