Over the past week a hacker in the Netherlands released a hack to hack all existing jailbroken iPhones connected to Tmoblie in the Netherlands. The hacker displayed a message on the iPhone slide screen stating that the iPhone is not safe and to fix this issue, you must go to a certain website and download a patch. This patch would cost people 5 euros. The method used to gain control of the iPhones was not to complex. The hacker only had to search for devices with SSH active and use the default password. This did not effect users of jailbroken iPhones that had switch the password away from the default. This goes to show that by jailbreaking your iPhone, you are taking any safety features that were pre installed on it off. Later this past week the hacker issued an apology letter and made the patch free to the public. He also stated he would give back any money recieved through the scandal. A similar incident has happened in Australia recently as well. This hacker did not ask for money to get rid of the hack and still give full functionality of the phone. The hack smply replaces the background of users iPhone with a picture of Rick Astley. Although this is somewhat amusing and does not seem to be doing any harm, it will make it easier for hackers to, in the future, use the same method but with more severe consequences.
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It's scary that this type of thing could happen. People are a bit foolish take the safety features off their phones, but I am impressed that Apple could create something that stopped all hackers. You are right that the person who installed the Rick Astley picture as everyone's background meant no harm but it frightening to know what these people could do to everyone's phone...
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