You've Been Rickrolled, Apple

• Report this Comment On November 09, 2009, at 3:02 PM, theHedgehog wrote:

  Hmmm, a simple websearch reveals that it's only the people who didn't bother changing the password after they broke out of jail. Dumb, dumb, dumb. It's almost inconceivable that unbroken iphones will be vulnerable.

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  If you are one of those users who had jailbroken their iPhones but did not care to change the default password after installing SSH, you might want to do it now.

  A new worm has been infecting those jailbroken iPhones that still carry the same default 'alpine' password.[/quote]

  From: http://www.iphonehacks.com/jailbreak_iphone/

• Report this Comment On November 09, 2009, at 3:34 PM, InfoThatHelp wrote:

  It's not a worm, it's people leaving their jailbroken iPhones wide open with no password protection.

  Give us your Credit Number and we will gladly use it to buy more cool iPhones. LOL

• Report this Comment On November 09, 2009, at 4:05 PM, Otherview wrote:

  With respect to the author of this article, it reveals only a cursory knowledge of what is happening here. This only affects jailbroken phones that ALSO installed the SSH transfer function and then ALSO didn't change their password. And while of course it's possible, even likely, the iPhone will be the subject of some sort of virus some day, so far in 3-plus years on the market it hasn't happened, which is largely also the case with Mac OS--any virii that exist depend on the user typing in their password first to allow it to install. This is an interesting anecdote, but not an AAPL story.

• Report this Comment On November 09, 2009, at 4:21 PM, kmn5 wrote:

  when it comes to security, RIMM has apple beat.

  Alot of people comment how the bold is slower to browse, but thats only because of the extra layers of security on there.

  Do you really want to logon to your bank account or online brokerage account on a smartphone that can be hacked in 30 seconds!? Yes I've seen it done at the computer security expo that was in Vegas in July.

  When I asked them to demonstrate on my bold, they could not do it, lol

  in the end I don' care about fancy apps or games, I rather have a smartphone that is secure!!!!

  especially when identity theft is now rampant

• Report this Comment On November 09, 2009, at 5:33 PM, InfoThatHelp wrote:

  When it comes to smartphone security, Apple has Research in Motion beat.

  Apple iPhone 3G and 3GS have hardware security chips built in to the smartphone. Blackberrys use software security which is much slower than hardware security, and because Blackberry security is using software, security hackers can defeat it by circumventing these Blackberry software and get at the Blackberry emails and documents which are protected by Blackberry. All in all, Apple's hardware security is much faster, much more secure than Blackberrys, and is the reason why iPhone is so much faster than the slow old Bold.

  Increasingly even more secure and faster iPhones are the reason why more and more corporations are switching to the iPhone instead of continuing to use the Blackberrys.

• Report this Comment On November 09, 2009, at 5:39 PM, mikecart1 wrote:

  Never gonna buy you up,

  Never gonna buy you down,

  Never gonna run around and buy you,

  Never gonna make you cry,

  Never gonna say goodbye,

  Never gonna tell a lie and say I'll buy you... AAPL.

• Report this Comment On November 09, 2009, at 5:44 PM, InfoThatHelp wrote:

  Even with Verizon continuing the Buy1 Get1 blackberry Free giveaway campaign, Motorola Droid's slow sales, Rim's pulling all stops releasing the storm 2 and bold 2, Rim promising to buy back $1.2 Billion in Rim shares, promoting in-app ads and billing, continual expensive prime time ads, Rim share price merely went up 4.84%.

  This is a drop in the bucket for Rim's losses of 66% so far, and quite possibly much more losses coming Rim's way after its dismal Christmas and New Year sales that could very well be dropping in the double digits.

• Report this Comment On November 09, 2009, at 6:03 PM, TMFMileHigh wrote:

  A round of applause for you, mikecart1. I own shares of Apple but that was hi-larious. Well done, sir.

  Foolish best,

  Tim (TMFMileHigh and @milehighfool on Twitter)

• Report this Comment On November 09, 2009, at 6:18 PM, InfoThatHelp wrote:

  Rim shares fallen trampled into frozen tundra mud black black black......and buried.

  Rim hopes dashed like light sucked into black holes black black black......and buried.

  Rim factories empty with machines down and lights out leaving them black black black......and buried.

  Rim junky phones abandoned left in old junkyards everywhere black black black......and buried.

  Rim sees no resurrection tattered in dead cold ashes black black black......and buried.

  A moratorium on some remote thing that fell over the rim...

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