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Ahhhh? I have no idea what this MDN post is talking about.

I bought a car. Did I "Take over" the car??

I added some stuff to my car. Did I "take over" all the cars like mine??

"Unauthorized tinkering"?? Hey, you can go to a web site and record golf scores, and other things. I still have no clue from this posting. I guess I will have to actually read the original article. :-(

en

Quick meaning it took them a MONTH of constant, around-the-clock effort to finally break into a layer deep enough to install software...

Personally I think Apple likes the attention. Free research into what people want out of the phone.

same thing will happen to osx when it grows

VIRUSES AND TROJANS!

en & AeronPrometheus:

2 intellegent posts. Are you sure you belong here?

To anti reality distortion field:

We're not interested in your sex life.

Please note that the term "hacker" is being used here with its original meaning and not to identify someone that is gaining unauthorized access to a device (also known as a "cracker"). So, anti reality distortion field, your post (as usual) is wrong. The hackers that have gained access to the iPhone have found ways to add additional software beyond what Apple had intended. They still need physical access to the device to do it.

Here it is in black and white Apple fans. The iPhone is clearly an insecure and unstable device. It's a bad neighborhood where the hackers and virus writers have moved in. How do you like the iPhone now?

Get a Zune. Stable, secure, virus-free and brown. You can make calls and check e-mail on a Motorola Q. They just aren't brown, but that can change.

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Yeah, but the Zune platform won't ever be compromised like that because there aren't enough of them out there to be worth the hassle...

"Stable, secure, virus-free and brown."

Just like boiled horseshit.

To anti reality distortion field:

Umm, this has nothing to do with viruses and trojans. This is simply accessing features which are built into OS X, not taking over the iPhone's OS and automatically causing mischief. Very different objectives and results.

talk about a misleading headline...

I guess I HACKED my mac when I installed iLife 08 too... I am SUCH the HACKER!

Farry, nope. But I wrote words anyways.

Why is MDN becoming a collection of sensationalistic articles? I'll take the MacBoy Microsoft flaming over this.

Thanks for giving me credit on that one. NOT.

For the Windows fanboys who seem to have the reading comprehension level of first graders, let's put this very clearly:

This is about people installing applications on their own iPhone. Not breaking into someone else's iPhone.

Further, it's not even news. It's just rehashing of previous announcements of "oh yeah, I got this app running on the iPhone"

BuriedCaesar: "Yeah, but the Zune platform won't ever be compromised like that because there aren't enough of them out there to be worth the hassle..."

just like crapple macs huh? yep

"...Stephen White posted software that lets people play classic Nintendo games, such as the Legend of Zelda and Super Mario Bros..."

I'm so thankful I'm not part of the "hacker community"

@anti reality distortion field
>>just like crapple macs huh? yep

The main reason that windows is so insecure has more to do with the fact that it's poorly designed. Seriously, why does windows Vista still use a registry and an FS filesystem that needs to be defragmented?

Hmmm ... so the Zune is brown ... should we be curious if it floats or sinks ... better to flush thoroughly ...

What a laughable set of responses. When the first attempts at hacking the iPhone emerged many here posted arrogantly how the iPhone was "unhackable", totally secure, and a total waste of time for the hacker community. Now notice how quickly the same group fell silent, or making excuses like in this thread.

This isn't about "adding" software as if you're installing an application on OSX. This is about altering the core iPhone OS (which many of you claimed impossible), unlocking the iPhone to work with other carriers (again which many of you claimed impossible), exploiting security exploits, etc....

remotely similar to the IPhone

is the openmoko...

check THAT out. Its Completely better than the IPhone.

http://www.openmoko.com/

what people are doing to the iphone illegally is what openmoko WANTS you to do..

its open source none the less.

Hey the guy just knew how to do some things that Apple didn't. I think he should be applauded on the hoe quickly he integrated his mind with their systems. He didn't even do anything wrong.