Thread: Risks of open source
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wmarone is offline wmarone
2009-11-19 , 02:26
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#19
Originally Posted by Laughing Man View Post
With the iPhone you can install applications outside the store if you jailbreak it.
Then you end up with fun incidents like the guy who guessed the default root password on jailbroken iPhones and left all of them a message. Nice little security hole, that one.

I think there was also recently a thing where a developer of a popular iPhone application was caught taking phone #s or something (I didn't read much into it).
They were apparently snatching the numbers from the phones in the free version, and calling them to try and sell the full (paid) version.