[Infowarrior] - Apple climbs on the cybergeddon bandwagon

[Richard Forno]

Way to spread the FUD, Apple.  Time to ratchet up that Reality  
Distortion Field.....

-- rick



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

The nation’s cellphone networks could suffer “potentially  
catastrophic” cyberattacks by iPhone-wielding hackers at home and  
abroad if iPhone owners are permitted to legally jailbreak their shiny  
wireless devices — that’s what Apple claims.

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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.

“The technological protection measures were designed into the iPhone  
precisely to prevent these kinds of pernicious activities, and if  
granted, the jailbreaking exemption would open the door to them,”  
Apple added.

Threat Level had no idea the iPhone was so dangerous. We’re gratified  
that Apple locked down this potential weapon of mass disruption before  
hackers could unleash cybarmageddon. This also explains why Apple  
rejected the official Google Voice App for the iPhone this week. We  
thought it was because Google Voice posed a threat to AT&T’s  
exclusivity deal with Apple. Now we know it threatened national  
security.

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