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Serious question: this is the third time a exploit of this kind is publicly revealed for this app. How comes we don't see a global hack outbreak? I mean, scrip
by aiur3la 10y ago
Serious question: this is the third time a exploit of this kind is publicly revealed for this app. How comes we don't see a global hack outbreak?
I mean, script kiddies would love to break millions of phones. What has stopped them from doing that so far?
- feld 10y agoEven the best script kiddie would get bloody fingers trying to type in every possible phone number or iCloud address There's no API. No real way to automate.
- goda90 10y agoA robotic auto-dialer could fix that. Perhaps an app on a jailbroken phone could inject numbers into the input field?
- throwanem 10y agoIt'd be easier to automate the Messages app on an OS X device. Another concern would be that Apple is likely to deactivate an ID used to send this kind of malicious spam at any sort of scale.
- Fnoord 10y ago> Another concern would be that Apple is likely to deactivate an ID used to send this kind of malicious spam at any sort of scale. Apple IDs can be easily remade. ProductIDs can be faked on a Hackintosh.
- natch 10y agoThe part you missed was: "at any sort of scale." I'm pretty sure you would encounter ever-increasing levels of countermeasures as you tried more and more tricks at scale.
- natch 10y agoBut users will just update to the latest version if a few days, and then the juvenile fun will be over.
- gcr 10y agoMessages on the mac can be automated with applescript. tell application "Messages" send "This is an iMessage" to buddy "foo@bar.com" of (service 1 whose service type is iMessage) send "This is an SMS" to buddy "+1234567890" of service "SMS" end tell
- twblalock 10y agoThere are a number of ways to automate text messages. That's how a lot of commercial text notifications work.
- pmorici 10y agoSending texts isn't free. Not many people are going to be willing to pay 5 cents a pop just to piss people off on a large scale.
- h4waii 10y agoYou can quite easily purchase unlimited outbound SMS from just about any local carrier in any part of the world for less than $20, either one time or monthly. It would be very easy to mass message this to an entire country in a matter of weeks.
- canuckintime 10y agoSending iMessage is 'free'
- dguido 10y agoThe motivation is pretty weak. If people found a way to make money by doing this, it would be massively exploited. But the reward for breaking a bunch of phones is... self satisfaction? ok.
- x1798DE 10y agoI don't know that people were seriously making money on most of the script kiddie shit that was going on on the internet back before ransomware and bitcoin and such (other than AV vendors), and yet it was rampant anyway. I imagine there are still people out there who do this sort of thing "for the lulz".
- userbinator 10y agoIt's really just a temporary and pretty easily reverted DoS, so it's more of an annoyance than anything of a serious security exploit.