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Don't hack your iPhone, you might break the mobile phone net

Corny

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Apple once again spreading FUD :rotflmao:

I guess *someone* fears that his entirely closed business model is gonna fail hard sooner or later .. ?

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/07/jailbreak/

The company’s filing explained that jailbreaking could allow hackers to altering the iPhone’s BBP — the “baseband processor” software, which enables a connection to cell phone towers.

By tinkering with this code, “a local or international hacker could potentially initiate commands (such as a denial of service attack) that could crash the tower software, rendering the tower entirely inoperable to process calls or transmit data,” Apple wrote the government. “Taking control of the BBP software would be much the equivalent of getting inside the firewall of a corporate computer — to potentially catastrophic result.
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Apple also claimed that jailbreaking would pave the way for hackers to alter the Exclusive Chip Identification number that identified the phone to the cell tower, which could enable calls to be made anonymously. Apple said “this would be desirable to drug dealers.”
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I'd say .. BAN them all together .. NOW! It's a danger to society .. Apple says so!
 
Uh, I have seen underground reports of "crackers" making headway on this technique with jail broken iPhones. So Apple is actually trying to minimize legal exposure when IT DOES HAPPEN!

Once an iPhone is Jail Broken is broken, it is rather trivial for an Internet Bad Guy to play all kinds of games (maybe fun for the Cracker but not the iPhone owner) with the iPhone.

I disagree, this is not FUD!

-dan
 
People have done worse to the regular phone net with a standard telephone and a little bit of electronics and wires.

Mobile phone hackers are not using the iPhone (yet .. they are probably very interested - now).

The point is that even IF the infrastructure is weak (and when it is why not do something against it?) you can still use anything else to fuck it up.
Building your own partially working phone just to send signals to the antennas is not *that* hard.

Oh .. and minimizing legal exposure, yeah?
You know .. there is at least one phone (the linux phone) which is completely open and anybody can do anything on it. Haven't heard about bad hackers bringing us doomsday from this one.
Also the Android phones which don't need to be jail broken are still around, and have started the armageddon either.
 
Corny, I agree with every point you made, but none change the fact jail breaking makes it inherently more vulnerable to mischief.

On the legal stuff, Apple lawyers are always busy attempting, protecting Apple from what if junk, real or imagined. They file lots of letters and lawsuits off on a regular basis. So I don't understand your point on the legal point.
 
LOL. Apple is funny sometimes. The basebands on the iPhone haz already been pwned. I mean hacked.

Pwnage. *cough* I mean most people hack the iPhone to get into Cydia and get more apps or better apps. The whole reason jailbreaking even existed was because before apps came people were trying to exploit the potential the iPhone really had.

The problem with apple crying wolf is that when they say "HACKERS COULD TAKE CONTROL OF THE INTERNETZ" actually gives them a challenge or gets them interested. So it's kind of stupid on their part.

AT&T might be part of it too. AT&T and apple joining forces was the worst thing to happen. All it is really is a blame game with them. AT&T completely underestimated how the iPhone 3G would turn out and the 3G network just cannot handle the extremly high volume of 3G users.

But yeah [/end rant]
 
COACHMN said:
Corny, I agree with every point you made, but none change the fact jail breaking makes it inherently more vulnerable to mischief.
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Of course it does. That's the point of it. But mischief as apple defines it. The problem here is that they are trying to sell this as a "danger" for the public - and that is just pure bullshit.
 
i hacked my new iphone 3g S 32Gb, about 20 seconds later a telephone mast about 100 yards away from my house had a large flash of light come from it, now we have no signal and when you go close to the mast, if you have a iphone in your pocket, you instantly set on fire and micosoft geeks come stand around your burnt body and mock your foolishness.

I learnt my lesson!

no more hacking for me!!
 
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