appleinsider.com - 7/23/2009
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A variety of sources have published a story accusing the iPhone 3.0 software of broadcasting "your AIM [instant] messages to random recipients without your knowledge or consent." In reality, the problem is created by hackers experimenting with their phones without understanding what ...
theiphoneblog.com - 7/21/2009
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theiphoneblog.com —
Crunchgear is reporting that Till Schadde of Equinux
has been noticing some weirdness with his AIM app...
and push notifications. Namely, Schadde has been seeing his AIM messages go to random recipients. He discovered this by being notified that a ...
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AIM Push Problems - Hacktivated iPhones to Blame?
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iPhone 3.0's 'broken' push messaging caused by unlockers, dirty keys
Engadget —
... Earlier this week there was something of a brouhaha when some iPhone 3.0 users started receiving random instant messages seemingly intended for other folks. Push notifications were one of the big additions in this release and so naturally a lot of ...
iPhone Push Messages haywire due to Jailbreak
Phones Review —
... pushing our random messages that were possibly intended for someone else, but according to an article on appleinsider, the random message problem only affects those iPhoners who have hacked their iPhone and thus made it vulnerable. ...
iPhoneWorld.ca: Open to Vulnerabilities if you Jailbreak your iPhone
iPhoneWorld.ca iPhone News Headlines —
... AppleInsider are reporting that jailbreaking your iPhone could be hazardous and may damage your device’s safety protocols. Upon jailbreaking your iPhone, you leave yourself open to Push Notification Service (PNS) messages that are intended for different recipients. Such messages can potentially run the remote wipe command which is pretty self explanatory. ...
Jailbroken iPhone: Issue with Push Function, not Apple's Fault?
HardMac.com —
... Unexpectedly, some users started complaining against Apple as they wanted to blaim the company to punishing them for having jailbroken their iPhone... According to AppleInsider, the jailbreak is directly responsible of this issue with the push function and due to the modification of the unique identification file of the iPhone. So all iPhone jailbroken with the same tools are missing one ID element used by Apple to identify the iPhone to ensure that the message and/or notifications are being sent to the right unit. ...
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