“invited the hackers to prove their claims by giving a brand new iPhone to Congressman Ted Lieu – who agreed to participate in the test”
Let’s repeat the experiment with a fresh-from-the-store phone rather than one that the hackers and 60 minutes had access to prior to the test.
60 Minutes had and has credibility issues.
“60 Minutes had and has credibility issues.”
Yes they do.
However, this impacts all cellular phones, not just the iPhone. They singled out the iPhone in the headline to attract readers. That’s quite scummy.
I wonder if they’d get their panties in a bunch if people would start using apps to encrypt phone conversations in realtime. I almost want to do that for fun. Seriously, just require each end user to agree on a particular key to use (much like one time pads) and encrypt the call. Not pretty, but it’d work ... and it’d be enough to cause some chuckles I think.
This kind of garbage is starting to really torque me off. I have absolutely nothing to hide and my phone conversations are quite boring ... but that’s nobody’s damn business ... get a frigging warrant if you want me to bore you to tears when you listen in on my calls about my latest sinus infection or how frigging tired I am :-).
It had nothing to do with the make of the phone. It had to do with a vulnerability to on the NETWORK, not the phone.