iPhone hackers turn up a few vulnerabilities
By Donald Melanson 
posted Jul 3rd 2007 10:36PM
posted Jul 3rd 2007 10:36PM
To no one's surprise, hackers have been hard at work on the iPhone since day one, and it looks like they're already turning up a few vulnerabilities. As The Register reports, the folks at Errata Security seem to have been the most successful to date, finding not one, but two "bugs" with the phone. The first is apparently similar to one of the bugs recently found in the Windows version of Safari which, in this case, allows someone so inclined to take control of the browser and run applications by causing a buffer overflow. The second, somewhat simpler flaw Errata discovered is that the device can apparently be easily locked up when exposed to a so-called Bluetooth "fuzzer." Despite that, the Errata folks say that they think the iPhone "is inherently more secure than competing smartphones," largely due to its dependence on iTunes and its ability to push out security updates faster than carriers are able to. As The Register points out, some intrepid "researchers" also recently discovered the passwords required to give an application root access although, as of yet, no one's actually found anything useful to do with them.[Thanks, Jags]
Cool so the iPhone is pretty secure, now where's me software updates Apple?
THANK GOD. I was having iPhone withdrawal with so few stories on it.
i(nferior)Phone ???
1, NO 3G/High Speed Internet(YES, its available from the same at&t in major cities & i'm using since Nov-06, works fine between 700 to 1400 Kbps)
2, NO GPS
3, NO MMS(did apple design this in 16th century?)
4, NO A2DP(NO Support for Stereo Bluetooth & they call it best ipod ever?)
5, Just Crappy Bluetooth(only good for Headsets, Can NOT transfer pics etc between PC & phone)
6, NO Video Recording
7, NO Custom Ringtones(can NOT use your own MP3s as Ringtones)
8, NO freedom to install/run 3rd party apps(Like I watch some LIVE TV, CNN-IBN, thru TCPMP on at&t 8525 OR NO internet radio thru GS Player. There literally hundreds stations available for FREE, so u don't have to buy itunes)
9, Guess you can NOT watch Xvid/DivX videos either
10, Can NOT copy/edit text or documents(as per engadget)
OK, in addition to all of the above there are some vulnerabilities reported by theRegister.co.uk
So my question to all of you fine folks is...is that 'i' stands for inferior in iphone?
no one is forcing you to buy the iPhone.
Give it up Ballmer and go play with your broken xbox.
No, that "i" stands for you're an "idiot".
The iPhone isn't about some geek boy's checklist. You probably had one for the iPod too and look how that turned out :-)
Wow, dude, like we iPhone owners haven't heard this bitchlist 1000 times already. YES, everyone is aware of the list of current shortcomings. Some of these will be addressed in future firmware updates.
S..T..F..U! CHRIST.
Geek: But your product does not sync as fast as the X2424, it only uses Be-arraaak protocols and long-side algorithms. This is not optimal efficiency. Now stop wasting my time, I need to do some spreadsheets.
Human: ?
So do you resort to turning off the 3G on your 8525 like so many other owners do?
i(diot)Phone to be precise.
People still are enjoying their (new) iPhone. Just wait for couple of months, they will cry like a baby because they will be bored with the look and feel and they cant do anything with it.
Can you customize it? Can you change the wallpaper with your OWN? Can you change the icons? Can you change the layout? Can you?
Boring phone ...
Dude, stop ragging on Jags. You guys can sit there and try and make fun of him cause he actually knows shit about technology all you want, but it doesn't change the fact that your iPhone is just a very pretty piece of metal and plastic and that's it.
Yes, it looks great. Congratulations. And I own a Macbook Pro (the newest model, thanks) so I don't want to hear any QQs about how I'm an Apple hater.
Imo - Bought Macbook Pro for college. This means - Free 4gig iPod Nano. No monthly fee. My cellphone? Free. Smaller monthly fee. Two separate batteries, overall pocket space used is not much greater than the iPhone (I've held one in person, my buddy got one). If one gets stolen I still have the other. If I want to listen to music and battery dies I can still make calls.
Congratulations on spending 500 dollars to browse the internet with a slow connection and to play movies on a tiny widescreen. Better pay your bill next month.
Gtfo iPhone.
"The iPhone isn't about some geek boy's checklist. You probably had one for the iPod too and look how that turned out :-)"
Yea, iPod worked out great for Apple. Yet I find it funny that nearly everyone I've talked to that has owned a harddrive iPod has had it fail on them within a year. Despite the iPod's notorious failings, it managed (manages) to sell really well. Tbh, I think it says more about the consumers intelligence than Apple's. Though admittedly I am liking my flash based nano - flash based doesn't have nearly as many problems (plus it was free).
Stop ragging on some kid that points out the shortcomings of the iPhone compared to what else is available on the market. It's called a "review." I, for one, like to get the most out of my money more than just a pretty design.
So people shouldn't bag on Jags but you are allowed to bag on the entire iPhone userbase because you are not smart enough to figure out that there are legitimate reasons why people want an iPhone that don't fit inside a list of technologies but rather concern "human" things like ease of use, aesthetic appearance, and so on.
Ten reasons why you're a moron.
I agree its i(diot)phone
And your forgot:
no Flash
no ability to open other 3rd party file formats
no swappable battery ( you loose your phone for a week)
and of course the obvious
No keyboard ( if you wanted the same as an iphone - SPB has a better, larger format for that)
Stupid Mac Fanboys. See, all OS have bugs if there are people determined enough to find them. Buffer over flow? I used to read Macboys rants about that about Windows.
Jags; you really don't have to advertise that can't afford one you know! The iPhone is 100% software upgradable. If Apple wanted to give you features it would take a flick of a button. So if you wanna make a point, at least make an intelligent one!
Most smartphones/pdas are software upgradable as long as the hardware permits. You're obviously not going to get 3G via upgrade (unless Apple snuck it in somehow), but the fact is at the moment the features do not exist. With enough user demand and time, the software will be tweaked and improved...though the same could be said about other phones besides the iphone.
For the record, I do have the money to purchase one; I choose not to [yet]. =]
hahahha! the Ileakfeatures root password! pwned
The password for root is "alpine"
The "mobile" user accounts password is "dottie"
but how will you use it then?
LMAO ;^)... Again, Bring it BITCHES!!!
The iPhone is 100% software upgradable? is that revolutionary? i recon is how upgradable as any other phone since a decade
Tony - you may be surprised to see that a lot of these features require both hardware AND software upgrades (Bluetooth, Camera [zoom/flash], GPS, and 3G). Now, with that said, it is completely up to you whether you would like to spend $1200 on a pair of iPhones.
Apple did a solid job on making the other OEMs get off their rears and get to market. The only sad part is that even though they are the first in the US, it is likely they will be far from the best from a feature perspective. iPhone, at this point, is innovative but not necessarily as original as people would like to think(HTC Touch).
Finally - these hacks could become something interesting and, more importantly, fun. Imagine if your iPhone was half as fun to personalize as a Windows Mobile phone - Registry Hacks, user generated themes and apps, and all non-proprietary formats you could wish for. I see this getting interesting for all of the mac-fanatics.
@Jags
Seriously dude it's getting old, fuk off.
The iPhone reminds me of the movie Transformers. Great special effects, the plot? Lame. Not a feel good movie at all. I bet in a few weeks, or less, iPhone owners are gonna feel ripped off.
I'm just loving this. :) No, REALLY.
And to all believes that, they gonna get HSDPA/HSUPA , GPS(sirf star III or something), A2DP(stereo Bluetooth) thru softwares updates: what planet are you posting from? Pluto or Oort Cloud, 'coz I hear it takes a while for even 'Light'(light as in knowledge) to reach over there!
And when its sooo 'Revolutionary' it should NOT need any upgrades in first place LOL :)
:))
One more thing, even after getting all latest tech it don't have to be $1200. At $849, that too NO contract & Un-Locked, HTC Advantage is available from Amazon.com http://www.amazon.com/HTC-Advantage-7501-Unlocked/dp/B000OQGG6M/ref=pd_bbs_1/002-6314038-4163223?ie=UTF8&s=wireless&qid=1183526694&sr=8-1
But the only thing companies like HTC/HP don't / won't do is create bogus hype :)
There's one other thing they wont do: make attractive products.
great analogy - LOL - definitely "(not)more than meets the eye"
Jags -
I'm a pretty big advocate of Windows Mobile. You make some very valid points about the iPhone's shortcomings and about some of the plus' of the HTC product. However, HTC and HP couldn't create hype if Motorola and Apple gave them the recipe AND the ingredients.
I say:
Enjoy the iPhone for what it is. A well done piece of hardware with a cool UI. Nothing more, Nothing less. Feature-wise, it's a turd but does anything EVER live up to our inflated expectations? I can't think of anything that has.
0_o
'Z'
very nice reply. I was expecting ALL replies to be extremely hostile, personally towards me.
Wud an Iphone bought in the US work in the UK?
Are they locked?
Yes they are looked to AT&T. You can't use other carrier's SIM's.
Thanks
Do u know how to unlock a blackberry #8700?
I have always been pro-Apple, and I was one of the first in Norway who purchased the iPod when it was released here. Since then I have purchased two iPods and a great number of songs fram iTMS. But now, Jobs has gone too far. I worked in the mobile phone business for a while, and I must say that the iPhone is inferior to phones I sold 3-4 years ago. It's terrible how the fanboys are protecting it like it's a holy books. Has Apple EVER launched great improvments and new features to the iPod-line? No, never! Of course, some small fixes have been issued, but nothing extreme. You have always had to buy the new gen iPod to, de facto, get the software update. What makes people think Apple will suddenly change and start releasing updated firmware with new functionality? They will issue fixes, but for MMS, IM, video recording, etc., you will have to face buying a new iPhone! If this phone had been launched in Europe, people would have laughed. It's eye-candy, but mobile phones have always been sold by funcionality ALSO. What makes Apple think they can sell shit for cake? Thanks for reading.
And why is everybody saying $600 is a lot of money? That nothing! That's a little more then NOK (norwegian kroner) 3000, and that's nothing for a unsubsidized phone. It will probably cost around $1200 here when launched, so stop whining. $ 600 is NOTHING for a phone.
Well, when I can get a Toshiba 904T, a phone with more than the iPhone, for less than half of $600 I'd be complaining about the iPhone's price too.
BTW- out of curiosity, can Danish kroner, Swedish kroner, and Norwegian kroner be interchangeably used?
Jamar: no they can't be used interchangeably. You have to exchange them. (1 DKK gives ~1,1 NOK and 0,9 NOK gives ~1 SEK) By the way, as you might sense from my other post, I wouldn't purchase the iPhone for $600 either. It's just too primitive technologically.
true that $600 is nothing for a phone but it's something for a phone that is a nothing phone(feature wise)
purezerg: I totally agree. I'm just annoyed over people that are dissmissing all critic of the iPhone by saying that people are only critisizing it because they can't afford it. That's a stupid thing to say as $600 isn't that much.
$600 is a lot of money for people in the U.S. to pay. I know it's different than what you are used to, but most U.S. phones are heavily subsidized in exchange for signing a contract.
The iPhone is not only unsubsidized but they ALSO make you sign a 2 year contract. For a phone that has only 300 - 400 charge cycles, this seems like a pretty steep price tag. Think about it like this Grojan: you buy an iPhone and less than a year into your two year contract you have to send your phone in to get the battery replaced. Maybe the phone on the device sucks, maybe major security issues turn up, maybe the screen starts melting people's faces (that probably won't happen), or maybe people just aren't happy with a $600 non HSDPA device. What then? Switch carriers? Nope. Buy a new phone after only a year? Sure, at full retail.
I would love to see the states go the way of Western Europe. If we paid full retail for phones, then I think we would treat our devices a lot better. I get calls every day about some of our more durable phones being snapped in half or having the keyboard pried up. People are so used to getting a 'free' phone or a $50 USD phone, they have no appreciation for the devices.
if iphone cant even sync with a 100% 64bit OS regardless if mac or microsoft, it's a piece of crap. oh i forgot, mac dont have a 100% 64bit OS.
What's the point of having a "pure 64bit os" when nothing can take full advantage of such. It's better to have a scaleable OS that can handle 32bit OR 64 bit programs, windows cannot pull this off Leopard has.
if leopard can only scale 32 OR 64bit program, then Leopard has failed badly as vista 64 is native 64 and runs 32 via wow32. if leopard64 runs with 32bit drivers, then leopard would be seriously more insecure and unstable than vista64. regardless apple doesnt have a native64 OS yet.
if leopard can only scale 32 OR 64bit program, then Leopard has failed badly as vista 64 is native 64 and runs 32 via wow32. if leopard64 runs with 32bit drivers, then leopard would be seriously more insecure and unstable than vista64. regardless apple doesnt have a native64 OS yet.
You forget one thing about leopard, with the unix core, it is already infintely more stable than Vista. The problem with native 64 is that windows has yet to ever accomplish it properly. OSX has much more potential to do such, and will still run the 32 bit programs better than windows could ever hope to. Since most programs don't take advantage of the 64 bit the native 64 bit operating system isn't really needed for quite some time. If you are using vista 64 or xp 64 at home, and then critisizing the iPhone for not supporting it, you really shouldn't be. No consumer computer comes with vista or xp 64 on it. That is custom ordered, and usually used for workstations rather than a home PC.
It's actually quite amusing that your reasoning is that since the iPhone doesn't support windows 64 which is a crap implentation as is, and not meant for home use, that thus the iPhone is crap since it doesn't already support crap.
from Mike the gimp:
It's actually quite amusing that your reasoning is that since the iPhone doesn't support windows 64 which is a crap implentation as is, and not meant for home use, that thus the iPhone is crap since it doesn't already support crap.
Gimp... you made no sense. What does XP64 being used at home or not have to do with the fact that iPhone doesn't support it? Sooooo if it is for home use, iphone should support it? If it's for professional use, iphone should support it? It doesn't matter what the OS is used for. The bottom line is, Apple support for the PC is utter crap, always has been, always will. For instance, Quicktime has always been buggy and Itunes completely blows compared to Winamp. That is the reason why they didn't provide support.. because they suck at it.
Some interprising hack will tweak existing XP drivers to get it to work in XP64. Of course, Apple, the pansies they are will try to force the developer to take their site down out of shear embarassment because they could never develop the drivers themselves. God forbid someone goes against crApple. A perfect example is all the fanboys in here yapping like little girls at the playground. Holy crap.. you mean not everyone wants an iPhone? You mean some of those features lacking really do make a difference to some people? WOW!!!!! I think the iphone is somewhat cool, but overpriced for a 1.0 model. I'll wait till 2.0 or 2.5 which will probably be out next year. Apple is notorious for pushing out products every 6 months, adding stuff that should've been in previous releases to begin with. Previous employees have admitted that. It's all about money to them, and you're all the sheep they're marketing too. Apple is NOT your friend.
So with all the Hacks and the disassemble of the iPhone
Does any one want to sell there parts left over from the
tear down?
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