“Technology fetishists aren’t the only folks itching to get their hands on an iPhone. Hackers want to play with Apple Inc.’s new toy, too,” Robert McMillan reports for IDG News Service. “Within hours of Apple’s iPhone unveiling on Tuesday, the iPhone was a hot topic on the Dailydave discussion list, a widely read forum on security research.”
McMillan reports, “In an e-mail interview, one of the hackers behind the ‘Month of Apple Bugs’ project, which is disclosing new Apple security vulnerabilities every day for the month of January, said he ‘would love to mess with’ the iPhone. ‘If it’s really going to run OS X, [the iPhone] will bring certain security implications, such as potential misuses of wireless connectivity facilities [and] deployment of malware in a larger scale,’ the hacker known as LMH wrote in an e-mail. He declined to provide his real name… ‘This is all speculation right now, until a technical specification is released by Apple on its features and technology,’ he added.”
McMillan reports, “David Maynor is another security researcher interested in the iPhone. Maynor’s videotaped demonstration of a MacBook being hacked over a wireless network received widespread attention at last year’s Black Hat USA conference, although Maynor and his co-presentor were later criticized for the way they presented their research. They demonstrated these flaws using a third-party wireless card rather than the one that ships with the MacBook, and they still have not published the code they used. ‘I can’t wait to get one,’ said Maynor, who is chief technology officer at Errata Security LLC. ‘There’s already a lot of discussion going on, and it’s not coming out for another six months. People are salivating over it.'”
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Perhaps McMillan should next interview Rob Glaser and Steve Ballmer about the health benefits of a good diet and regular exercise?
“…If you watch those ‘Get a Mac’ commercials enough, it eventually makes you want to stab one of those users in the eye with a lit cigarette…” – David Maynor, August 02, 2006
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