The Rick Astley iPhone virus

[Angel Eyes]

(posted to alert any iPhone users on APS):

http://www.infopackets.com/news/security/2009/20091110_rick_astley_virus_highlights_iphone_security_risk.htm


The problem only affects "jailbroken" handsets, those which have been adapted by the user to allow them to run applications without any restrictions. Note that a jailbroken iPhone is different from an unlocked iPhone, which allows the phone to make calls on any network.

The worm takes advantage of the fact that many people who have jailbroken their phone go on to use a file transfer system known as Secure Shell, but fail to change the iPhone's default password of "alpine". This is a root password, meaning it theoretically gives access to the entire iPhone operating system. One site describes installing Secure Shell without changing the password the same as building an extra back door to your house but leaving it unlocked. (Source: pcworld.com)
[more at the link]

[Headless Thompson Gunner]

So Apple finally made a product popular enough to attract viruses?  And it wasn't even a computer?

Hmm...

[Tuco]

As if 

this

wasn't enough.

[jackdanson]

Jailbreaking your iPhone can lead to all kinds of bad times.  I don't really see the point myself.

[Balog]

Jailbreaking is the sort of thing that should only be undertaken by people who are tech savvy enough to, you know, change the root password. :)

[RaspberrySurprise]

Jailbreaking your iPhone can lead to all kinds of bad times.  I don't really see the point myself.

FREEDOM!

[Angel Eyes]

Jailbreaking is the sort of thing that should only be undertaken by people who are tech savvy enough to, you know, change the root password. :)

Well, they are Apple customers ...

[Mabs2]

My aunt heard me listening to a song one day and asked me to put it on a disc for her.
I put this song on the disc and let her drive away with it.