Waiting to Hack the iPhone

January2007
Hackers looking forward to iPhone.
Within hours of Apple's iPhone unveiling on Tuesday, January 9, the iPhone was a hot topic on the Dailydave discussion list, a widely read forum on security research. Much of the discussion centered on the processor that Apple may have chosen to power its new device and what kind of assembly language "shellcode" might work on this chip. In an e−mail interview, one of the hackers behind the "Month of Apple Bugs" project, which is disclosing new Apple security vulnerabilities every day for the month of January, said he "would love to mess with" the iPhone. "If it's really going to run OS X, [the iPhone] will bring certain security implications, such as potential misuses of wireless connectivity facilities [and] deployment of malware in a larger scale," the hacker known as LMH wrote in an e−mail. Because the device could include a range of advanced computing features, such as Apple's Bonjour service−discovery protocol, it could provide many avenues of attack, according to LMH. "The possibilities of a worm for smartphones are something to worry about," he wrote. "Imagine Bonjour, and all the mess of features that OS X has, concentrated in a highly portable device which relies on wireless connectivity."
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