TechAC
July 23, 2007, 08:59 AM
By Stan Beer
Monday, 23 July 2007
News that the iPhone can be hacked just like any other "computer" should come as no surprise. If you visit a malicious website using any known browser that interacts with any known operating system, you're likely to get hacked. The iPhone is a small computer and, as the New York Times reports, it took a serious security expert about one week to find a flaw that would allow him to gain complete control of someone else's iPhone.
The same article also points out that any smart mobile phone with computer like capabilities is just as vulnerable but the iPhone is flavor of the month and therefore a desirable target. It's the old argument that Macs are just as vulnerable as Windows PCs - they're just not as worth hacking.
In the case of the iPhone, however, Apple has more to worry about than malevolent hackers. Such is the popularity of the device, that potential users and technologists feel that trying to keep its systems closed and locked is an affront to the spirit of openness that pervades software technology.
See rest of article here (http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/13639/1023/)
Regards,
Monday, 23 July 2007
News that the iPhone can be hacked just like any other "computer" should come as no surprise. If you visit a malicious website using any known browser that interacts with any known operating system, you're likely to get hacked. The iPhone is a small computer and, as the New York Times reports, it took a serious security expert about one week to find a flaw that would allow him to gain complete control of someone else's iPhone.
The same article also points out that any smart mobile phone with computer like capabilities is just as vulnerable but the iPhone is flavor of the month and therefore a desirable target. It's the old argument that Macs are just as vulnerable as Windows PCs - they're just not as worth hacking.
In the case of the iPhone, however, Apple has more to worry about than malevolent hackers. Such is the popularity of the device, that potential users and technologists feel that trying to keep its systems closed and locked is an affront to the spirit of openness that pervades software technology.
See rest of article here (http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/13639/1023/)
Regards,