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07-30-2009, 05:40 AM

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From what I've seen so far in the news, it looks like today is supposed to be the day the hacking begins...

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/07...vulnerable.html
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/arti..._black_hat.html
http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-10299378-245.html
http://g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/697834/E...g-Tomorrow.html

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07-30-2009, 06:39 AM

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Originally Posted by Rudy' post='959331' date='Jul 30 2009, 06:40 AM

Wow, man, I am glad I have a BlackBerry. Still thinking of replacing it with an HTC Hero.

Thanks for the heads up Rudy.

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07-30-2009, 07:01 AM

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from the first article: "Someone could pretty quickly take over every iPhone in the world with this," Miller claimed to Forbes on Wednesday."

damn that's some serious stuff.. thanks for the heads up!

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07-30-2009, 07:11 AM

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Thanks for the heads up. But there isn't anything we can do about it, right?

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07-30-2009, 09:01 AM

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Originally Posted by theXman' post='959446' date='Jul 30 2009, 11:11 AM

Thanks for the heads up. But there isn't anything we can do about it, right?

Other than turn the darn thing off, I don't think so...

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07-30-2009, 09:05 AM

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Originally Posted by Rudy' post='959601' date='Jul 30 2009, 12:01 PM

Other than turn the darn thing off, I don't think so...

I believe the hacker has to know that you have an iPhone + your number. I guess they can always send a blanket msg and hope to hit 1 or 2 and takes how it spreads out.

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07-30-2009, 09:09 AM

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Originally Posted by theXman' post='959606' date='Jul 30 2009, 01:05 PM

I believe the hacker has to know that you have an iPhone + your number. I guess they can always send a blanket msg and hope to hit 1 or 2 and takes how it spreads out.

Not sure it would be too hard to do...

Carriers were issued phone numbers in large blocks and except for cases where someone ported a number from one carrier to another (which would be a relatively small number anywa) it would be easy to target large blocks of numbers that were known to be AT&T customers. From there, the popularity of the iPhone would make the odds pretty good that some of these text messages would land on an iPhone.

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07-30-2009, 02:22 PM

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ah ha sucka's I ported my phone number from Sprint that I was issed 5 years ago to ATT for the Iphone. I should be fine. Anyways, what the hell could a hacker do with my iphone anyways? Disrupt my social networking? Email my boss a dirty message?