iPhone virus by apple
- From: "zara" <zeero@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 16:57:33 -0400
Totally unconciable!
zaras crystal ball says: "another lawsuit looms, in the not so distant
future".
FYI: zaras crystal ball, 97% accurate.
http://www.macworld.com/news/2007/09/27/iphoneunlock/index.php
Apple update disables unlocked iPhones
Don't say you weren't warned. After cautioning customers earlier this week
that unlocked iPhones may be disabled when installing future Apple software
updates, the company on Thursday made good on its warning.
Two iPhones in the Macworld offices that had the SIM hacks applied to them
were disabled after installing iPhone Update 1.1.1. The update process went
through without a hitch, however, when the phone restarted an activation
message appeared that said, "Insert an unlocked and valid SIM to activate
iPhone."
A similar message appeared in iTunes. A note saying the SIM card was not
valid and to insert a valid SIM card greeted the user.
SIM (Subscriber Identity Module) cards contain account information and are
used to authenticate devices on certain types of mobile networks. Unlocked
iPhones can use SIM cards from non-AT&T networks.
Security researcher Tom Ferris said the new software disabled a phone that
had been unlocked using the open-source anySIM software in order to work on
T-Mobile USA's wireless network. "It kept saying 'unsupported SIM card,'
even with the AT&T SIM card in it," he said. "You can turn the phone off or
on, but we just can't figure out how to get past this 'SIM card not
supported,'" he said.
Users also could not navigate through the iPhone's menus. The "Slide for
Emergency" slider is the only thing available after installing the update.
This allows customers to make emergency calls only.
The update also appears to disable the Jailbreak hack which allows users to
install unsupported software on the iPhone, Ferris said. After the 1.1.1
patch was installed it wiped out all of the third-party applications he had
installed on a second iPhone, he said.
Apple warned customers on Monday that unlocked iPhones may become
inoperable. "Apple has discovered that many of the unauthorized iPhone
unlocking programs available on the Internet cause irreparable damage to the
iPhone's software, which will likely result in the modified iPhone becoming
permanently inoperable when a future Apple-supplied iPhone software update
is installed," the company said in a statement.
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