Re: Apple Spreads Firmware Virus To Disable iPhones

On Sep 30, 4:17 pm, Snit <C...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Jesus" <rustybucket...@xxxxxxxxx> stated in post
1191183253.535720.205...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on 9/30/07 1:14 PM:



Depends on whether or not it was deliberate, which is debatable unless
we actually hear from somebody in Apple who's not trying to do PR crap.

Even if Apple did this deliberately... which if they did it may or may not
have been for "bad" reason (it could also be to beef up security or
something) it is still not a virus.

# S: (n) virus, computer virus (a software program capable of
reproducing itself and usually capable of causing great harm to files
or other programs on the same computer) "a true virus cannot spread to
another computer without human assistance"
(http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=virus)

Well, it causes great harm to the iPhone if it was unlocked and it
spreads from Apple's servers to users' iPhone with the users'
assistance... it may be a stretch, but it works! :-)

A very big stretch.

--
One who makes no mistakes, never makes anything.

So? I still made it work! Yay for me. :-)

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