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		thinkzig on July 29, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How To Hijack 'Every iPhone In The World' OP here. In short, it sounds like the iPhone SMS infrastructure is susceptible to buffer overflow attacks. Seems the guys who have found it have given Apple a lot of time to fix it with no response so far.

jsonscripter on July 29, 2009 | [–]

I'll be smug for a moment and declare that this is one excellent reason for not choosing closed software systems.

messel on July 29, 2009 | [–]

That's how I read it, and am a little concerned as I can't patch my phone.

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