“Charlie Miller, the serial hacker who has exposed more than a dozen critical vulnerabilities in Apple’s Mac and mobile platforms, was kicked out of the company’s iOS developer program after publishing an application that demonstrated a serious new bug in iPhones and iPads,” Dan Goodin reports for The Register.
“Miller’s InstaStock app, which was accepted into the iTunes App Store in September, bills itself as a program that tracks stock prices in real time,” Goodin reports. “On Monday, Miller announced that the app contained a secret hack that bypassed protections built into iOS devices that prevent code from running on them unless it has been signed by Apple’s official cryptographic seal.”
Goodin reports, “A few hours after Miller disclosed the hidden payload, he received an email informing him that Apple was terminating him from the iOS Developer Program for violation of a clause in the program’s license in which he agreed he wouldn’t ‘hide, misrepresent or obscure any features, content, services or functionality’ of applications he submitted. ‘They had every legal reason to do it, but i still think it’s rude,’ Miller told The Reg. ‘It’s going to hinder my ability to help them secure their products.'”
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Man, are some of you totally clueless and sound like little fangirls that had their dress pulled up by the bad boy at school and are crying and whining.
What Charlie did was totally right and he knew exactly what would happen.
Apple delivers their OS with the fricken fire wall DISABLED . Hello!!!! Go charlie go!!!
Where is Derek Currie and his clueless Macs are the most secure OS out there crap. All it is is code and it is rip to be hacked.
Wow! It’s anonymous coward ‘Ted’. Stark naked! (I’ve ripped ‘Ted’ to shreds many is the time).
What a surprise for me to make my post then discover your incoherent rubbish afterward!
Read what I wrote below little Teddy. It’s not what you expected, is it? Then again, you have NEVER bothered to read what I’ve written nor the links I have provided for your benefit. Thus your nick of TeddyTard.
And like it or not, UNIX is the most secure OS on the planet. And oh look. Mac OS X is UNIX. The least secure OS on the planet? It’s still Microsoft Windows. Darn darn darn!
BTW: How many new malware were there for Windows this week compared to the one and only DevilRobber Trojan? Please let us know! It would be great to see you do some homework for a change.
It’s just too easy to pick on this troll. I enjoy feeding him just to watch his subsequent explosions. The sorry fate of the troll in the light of day… 😆
I’ve been following Dr. Charlie Miller’s work for years. He knew perfectly well what the outcome would be AND he knows how to ‘properly’ perform white hat hacker work with Apple. This is an attention getting performance.
Thankfully such performances have good ramifications. Miller proved:
(1) That there are vulnerabilities in Apple’s certification system.
(2) How easy it is to sneak a hack into an iOS app.
The result is a good swift kick in Apple’s butt, forcing them, if only from embarrassment, to fix these problems. I like that. There are important uses for snarkiness. Meanwhile, Miller continues his high visibility, securing employment for another year. 😉
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