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I don't know much about commodore basic, but I think any form of executable code can be dangerous on the iPhone. What if there was a vulnerability in the emulat
by chaosprophet 17y ago
I don't know much about commodore basic, but I think any form of executable code can be dangerous on the iPhone. What if there was a vulnerability in the emulator which allowed somebody to remotely run basic code, which sent your entire contacts list over to them???
For once I'm on Apple's side. Besides ain't it the developers fault for not removing something Apple explicitly asked him to remove???
- jacquesm 17y ago> What if there was a vulnerability in the emulator which allowed somebody to remotely run basic code, which sent your entire contacts list over to them??? What if such a vulnerability existed in any other iPhone application ? Or does the review process includes a line-by-line code audit and sign-off ?
- chaosprophet 17y agoWhat I meant was you can write/compile/execute scripts from the commodore 64 emulator, whereas that is not possible with an app that does not run code not written by the app developers themselves.
- jacquesm 17y agoYes, but that makes a lot of assumptions: 1) that it is possible to break out of the c64 emulator into the app, then from there into the Iphone os 2) you'd have to download a malicious C64 program to do that 3) that program would have to be written in BASIC, which is inspectable I find this a pretty implausible vector of attack.
- chaosprophet 17y agoYeah, apparently the emulator was totally sandboxed, which kinda makes my entire argument moot.