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The iPhone has its first worm: Rick Roll'd!
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The following comments relate to this news article:
article published on 9 November, 2009
The Apple iPhone has its first virus, a wonderful Rick Rolling worm that has been infecting jailbroken phones in Australia this week.
The worm, dubbed Ikee, changes the wallpaper of the exploited phones to a picture of Rick Astley and then looks to infect other phones.
Despite being harmless now, "there is a real danger that someone could take this code and make it do something malicious," ... [ read the full article ]
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9. November 2009 @ 01:15 |
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great. here we go...
pretty sure there will be more to come...
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9. November 2009 @ 03:33 |
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I can see it now, a group of friends all sat in a mall dribbling over each other's iPhones (didn't anyone tell them that you can actually use phones to make calls instead of showing them off as fashion accessories) and Rick Astley breaks out across the group.
How apt, owned.
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ITSDAVID
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9. November 2009 @ 03:33 |
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Haha I always wanted to rick roll my buddys on there iphone..
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snake2
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9. November 2009 @ 09:00 |
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Originally posted by creaky:
I can see it now, a group of friends all sat in a mall dribbling over each other's iPhones (didn't anyone tell them that you can actually use phones to make calls instead of showing them off as fashion accessories) and Rick Astley breaks out across the group.
How apt, owned.
Wait you can use cell phones to make calls? Why didn't anyone tell me this before?!
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9. November 2009 @ 09:09 |
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Originally posted by snake2:
Wait you can use cell phones to make calls? Why didn't anyone tell me this before?!
Sorry, can't take your call right now, have to take this video call from Rick Astley.
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9. November 2009 @ 12:01 |
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Originally posted by creaky:
I can see it now, a group of friends all sat in a mall dribbling over each other's iPhones (didn't anyone tell them that you can actually use phones to make calls instead of showing them off as fashion accessories) and Rick Astley breaks out across the group.
How apt, owned.
Wait you can use cell phones to make calls? Why didn't anyone tell me this before?!
Unfortunately, the fact that iPhones cannot be used reliably as a phone has made them a fashion accessory/game device.
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9. November 2009 @ 14:30 |
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Originally posted by emugamer:
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Unfortunately, the fact that iPhones cannot be used reliably as a phone has made them a fashion accessory/game device.
Never had an issue using mine as a phone or anything else for that matter.
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9. November 2009 @ 19:02 |
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But it's an Apple... how did it get a virus???
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xnonsuchx
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9. November 2009 @ 19:23 |
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Originally posted by ThePastor:
But it's an Apple... how did it get a virus???
Because they were hacked by their owners, making them more susceptible.
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UnDedFish
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9. November 2009 @ 20:31 |
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Originally posted by ThePastor:
But it's an Apple... how did it get a virus???
Because they were hacked by their owners, making them more susceptible.
Wonder how long it takes Apple to realize this can be used as a way to keep people from jail-breaking.
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10. November 2009 @ 05:28 |
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Originally posted by ThePastor:
But it's an Apple... how did it get a virus???
Because they were hacked by their owners, making them more susceptible.
No, because they didn't change their passwords. If everyone who had a MAC was using the same password. It's very silly to blame jailbreaking, or even apple for this. It is a user error...you might as well say that the calculator is broken because 5+5=10, but it gave the result as 9 when you entered 5+4.
BTW...there are apple viruses and trojans and spyware...they just are not very common because there are few apples around, and those who have them don't do much of anything with them.
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11. November 2009 @ 04:22 |
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SPAM removed
This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 11. November 2009 @ 04:28
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jaqafter
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11. November 2009 @ 07:39 |
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I seen this coming a long long time ago. 
When Apple announced the closed ecosystem they had planned, they instantly created a pool of users that refuse to be contained by it. Fortunately this fellow used the incident as a warning.
Now that the code is out on the interwebs for others to use? Who knows..
Down with sigs. This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 14. November 2009 @ 16:15
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12. November 2009 @ 10:53 |
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Ahh...the classic rickroll. It's been so long. I thought everyone had given up on that cheesy crap. It's so immature.
/leaves to go rickroll some people
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