Monday, July 23, 2007

If you don't own an iPhone yet...

It got easier. Penetrated, completely compromised; the hack validated by Steve Bellovin and Avi Rubin; published in the NYT; and even slashdotted. On the plus side the guy that hacked it is a former employee of the NSA.

2 comments:

amberman said...

So, if you carry a computer in your pocket, it's as vulnerable as a computer on your desk. Not that big a surprise. (And I've got my iPhone sync'd up nicely now with my (OS X) computers, so they all have the same data and the same risk.)

William Cohen said...

I'm not surprised - generally speaking, security is inversely related to complexity, or at least, it takes more effort to make a complex system secure than a simple one. As mobiles do more and more they will be less secure, unless there's proportionally more effort spent to clean things up. Is that happening? I don't see it. There's probably been less time securing your data than was spent making sure AT&T gets paid for ringtone downloads.

Also, probably your iPhone is less secure than your OS X machine at work, tho, because you have less control over your iPhone (at least, unless you're going to go to the work of hacking into it).