Gelsons Dad
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The worm, known as ikee, only affects "jail-broken" phones, where a user has removed Apple's protection mechanisms to allow the phone to run any software.
"What's clear is that if you have jail-broken your iPhone or iPod Touch, and installed SSH, then you must always change your root user password to something different than the default, 'alpine'," wrote Graham Cluley of security firm Sophos.
"In fact, it would be a good idea if you didn't use a dictionary word at all."
After a phone becomes infected it disables the SSH service, preventing reinfection.
The code contains numerous comments from Mr Towns about his motivation.
Jail breaking allows a user to run non-Apple approved software
One comment reads: "People are stupid and this is to prove it."
Damocles said:squirtyflower said:Interesting article this week about smartphones
It was all about the viruses they have been subjected to, particularly through apps
Oddly enough the only phones that had been attacked were Android phones and jail broken iPhones
I'll just leave this here:
<a class="postlink" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8349905.stm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8349905.stm</a>