Website details iPhone root exploit

First of all, it's stuff like this why Apple keeps tightening security on iPhone, and why they close exploitable hole after exploitable hole -- the hacking community that lives under the delusion that Apple deliberately goes after their hacks labors in a delusion. It's about security, not the ability to snap pictures dressed as a pirate.

That being said, if I understand this weblog entry from yet another self-proclaimed security 'expert' right, it's all hypothetical musings -- i.e. "if a potential exploit on an older version of the iPhone's firmware had security flaws, and if it were to be exploited, and if a piece of software exploited existed to do so, and if somone were inclined to do so.... then, *maybe* an iPhone could be exploited"

That's a lot of 'ifs'. I guess the usual grab for attention, while talking out of their asses...

First of all, it's stuff like this why Apple keeps tightening security on iPhone, and why they close exploitable hole after exploitable hole -- the hacking community that lives under the delusion that Apple deliberately goes after their hacks labors in a delusion. It's about security, not the ability to snap pictures dressed as a pirate.

Blocking 'hacks' on the phone has nothing to do with security. As can be seen, there's still loads of potentials for problems. The biggest problem is actually that it IS a closed platform, which limits the amount of time/effort spent by security people to see how secure it is, but it doesn't stop those who'd want to hack it.

You are speaking like if the fact of being closed platform has something to do with security in general. Wake up! Many of Mac OS X exploits both patched and unpatched have been discovered in open source parts of the system, like Java. Look at other open source platforms - aren't they ridden with exploits too? Going open source is not a solution for security problems.

Also, before panic started i would like to point out that there's a big difference between a potential exploit and a real exploit out in the wild. It is the presence of the latter that indicates the fact of some company being lax on security. If potential exploits patched quickly enough then there never be real ones.