iPhone Push Problem Broadcasts Your AIMs to Random Recipients, Could Affect Jailbroken/Unlocked Phones
Till Schadde, founder of development house Equinux, has discovered an exploit – a broadcast error, really – that sends your AIM messages to random recipients without your knowledge or consent. The problem seems to happen in unlocked/jailbroken Apple’s Iphones and results in a alert appearing on a recipients home screen bearing your message.
Till tested the service by sending an AIM from the OS X desktop using iChat to his Apple’s Iphone. He then received a reply back from a random recipient. It is clear that this is a Push problem in the message addressing – each Apple’s Iphone is assigned its own identifier and receives messages from a central server operated by Apple – although this may change.
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