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Weekly Rumour Mill: Can Apple can wipe your Iphone?, remote iTunes, Dark Knight on BD-Live
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on Aug 8, 2008
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".:Cyb3rGlitch:. wrote: Slatts wrote: Is there an echo in here? Not anymore. ;) Mr fixit strikes again :)"
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Apple: Resistance is futile - we can destroy your IPhone apps remotely! (ok, so we made that bit up)
The Inquirer are
reporting
that an iPhone expert(aren't we all?), named Jonathan Zdziarsk has discovered an evil backdoor hidden in the new Apple iPhone firmware 2.0 update, which allow Apple to “delete any unsuitable or unauthorised applications”.
This will probably not come as surprising news to Apple disciples, as they are likely be remain unaffected, since Apple engineered a backdoor into many of their brains already, causing them to line up for stupidly long periods of time and spend huge amounts of money on overpriced
kitschy T-shirts on eBay
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totoaus
Aug 8, 2008 10:37 PM
Based on my IT experience over many years, I am not overly concerned about back doors whether in iPhines, Macs, PCs or even mainframes. My reason is simple: stupidity beats malice every day.
Far more people each day are going to have technology problems through mistake, carelessness, lack of knowledge and manifest other causes than through back doors and other defects that allow intruders to trash their tech toy.
The end result will of course, sadly be the same, grief stricken and angry people yelling at people like me to fix their damaged toy and recover their data. They won't accept the reality that sometimes things cannot be fixed, nor the responsibility of well known preventative actions.
The most depressing of all, are those deluded souls who actually believe the marketing and sales comments and have unrealistic expectations for their gizmo. i just wish it wasn't me that got depressed by their complaints and problems.
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Slatts
Aug 9, 2008 11:22 AM
A back door is a back door. Doesn't matter what your IT experience.
More on this in the
peripherals forum
.
Is there an echo in here?
.:Cyb3rGlitch:.
Aug 9, 2008 12:37 PM
Slatts wrote:
Is there an echo in here?
Not anymore. ;)
Slatts
Aug 9, 2008 12:49 PM
.:Cyb3rGlitch:. wrote:
Slatts wrote:
Is there an echo in here?
Not anymore. ;)
Mr fixit strikes again :)
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