iPhone has a built-in spyware module?

[Ebuntor]

(I have no idea if this is true or not, I just found the article. Maybe it is FUD but I doubt these hackers have any reason to lie.)


iPhone has a built-in spyware module? (http://vsiphone.blogspot.com/2007/07/iphone-has-built-in-spyware-module.html)

Today an underground hacker team "web-Hack" from Russia released a whitepaper with results of iPhone firmware research. They reverse- engineered some functions and published this information. Results of a research shocked community. Russian hackers found a built-in function which sends all data from an iPhone to a specified web-server. Contacts from a phonebook, SMS, recent calls, history of Safari browser - all your personal information can be stolen.

At present there is no additional information about this issue. Researches assume that this function either a debug feature or a built-in backdoor module for some governmental structures. Anyways this function can be used by a trojan-developers or activated by the AT&T.
We will monitor all information about this accident and will publish it immediately.http://vsiphone.blogspot.com/2007/07/iphone-has-built-in-spyware-module.html

Seems like yet another good reason never to buy an iPhone. I understand there are phones half the price that have better features anyway. :)

[vambo]

This guy's found a patch!

http://www.metro.co.uk/yourmetro/article.html?in_article_id=56803&in_page_id=6

[aktiwers]

This guy's found a patch!

http://www.metro.co.uk/yourmetro/article.html?in_article_id=56803&in_page_id=6

LOL :popcorn:

[Ebuntor]

This guy's found a patch!

http://www.metro.co.uk/yourmetro/article.html?in_article_id=56803&in_page_id=6

ROFL :D thanks for the link.

[Ebuntor]

*bump*

Over 100 views and only two comments?
I had expected this would be pretty shocking.

[eljoeb]

What do you expect? Apple walks on water to its user base.

[Hex_Mandos]

See, that's a good example of why it's good to have free (as in freedom) software: Apple wouldn't have risked spying on their customers if anyone could read the source code, and hackers could've changed the malicious features faster (and legally, too). Advocating for freedom isn't zealotry, it's simple pragmatism.

[tgalati4]

Perhaps I am missing the point. Apple offers syncing to a .MAC account to store your data at a website. This represents a security risk if the data can be misdirected. It makes sense that the basic functionality is built-in. Of course being closed-source doesn't help.