It's important to recognize the irony of this story, vs. the previous one describing a (supposedly) potentially catastrophic iPhone SMS bug.
Apple is claiming that if they opened up the iPhone ecosystem, the telecom world would collapse in a mass of flaming iPhones -- an attitude in total contrast to Google's philosophy regarding Android. But the "nightmare" risk being described in: http://www.nnsquad.org/archives/nnsquad/msg01810.html seemingly has nothing to do with user apps at all, but rather in a basic Apple-provided iPhone functionality - SMS text messages. --Lauren-- NNSquad Moderator ----- Forwarded message from David Farber <[email protected]> ----- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 08:36:21 -0400 From: David Farber <[email protected]> Subject: [IP] Apple climbs on the cybergeddon bandwagon Reply-To: [email protected] To: ip <[email protected]> Begin forwarded message: From: Richard Forno <[email protected]> Date: July 28, 2009 10:47:40 PM EDT To: Infowarrior List <[email protected]> Cc: Dave Farber <[email protected]> Subject: Apple climbs on the cybergeddon bandwagon Way to spread the FUD, Apple. Time to ratchet up that Reality Distortion Field..... -- rick http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/07/jailbreak/ The nation?s cellphone networks could suffer ?potentially catastrophic? cyberattacks by iPhone-wielding hackers at home and abroad if iPhone owners are permitted to legally jailbreak their shiny wireless devices ? that?s what Apple claims. < - > By tinkering with this code, ?a local or international hacker could potentially initiate commands (such as a denial of service attack) that could crash the tower software, rendering the tower entirely inoperable to process calls or transmit data,? Apple wrote the government. ?Taking control of the BBP software would be much the equivalent of getting inside the firewall of a corporate computer ? to potentially catastrophic result. ?The technological protection measures were designed into the iPhone precisely to prevent these kinds of pernicious activities, and if granted, the jailbreaking exemption would open the door to them,? Apple added. Threat Level had no idea the iPhone was so dangerous. We?re gratified that Apple locked down this potential weapon of mass disruption before hackers could unleash cybarmageddon. This also explains why Apple rejected the official Google Voice App for the iPhone this week. We thought it was because Google Voice posed a threat to AT&T?s exclusivity deal with Apple. Now we know it threatened national security. < - > ------------------------------------------- Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com ----- End forwarded message -----
