Protect yourself from SSH-based iPhone worms

Here isanothrr good reference.
http://iphoneyap.com/showthread.php?t=621

Here is also a very good and simple way (for everyone) to protect your iPhone:

http://www.citrusblog.net/?p=183

Or, maybe, just maybe... DON'T JAILBREAK YOUR IPHONE.

And mainstream sites shouldn't be talking about this sort of crap.

For those that have never jailbroken, it should be stated that right after the jailbreak process it actually tells you REMEMBER to CHANGE THE PASSWORD. And Cydia has a FAQ about how to do it. I recall seeing it first thing after doing it on my last phone (though that phone is gone and I have not done it since with new phones). And these warnings and FAQ's were listed way before all this hit the news.

People who say "just don't jailbreak your phone - problem solved!" are probably a bit naive to what jailbreaking actually means. For me it means opening up my device, that I have bought, to a whole host of new applications and tweaks that make my iPhone experience all the more enjoyable.

I also think that people who slate others for not changing the default password are being a bit pretentious and elitist. Some tutorials for changing things like application icons and wallpapers require you to have SSH access into your iphone so you can transfer files/images and so on. People who might be a bit uninitiated to the realm of SSH and Unix probably don't know that there is a passwd command to change the default password.

The easiest solution for me was to change the password and only use SSH when I need it (using SBSettings to toggle SSH to off for the rest of the time)

Odd. I thought the reason that viruses where not written for the Mac where because of "security through obscurity". I never realized, but there must be more jail broken iPhones then Mac computers, to make writing a virus worth while.

You can unlock the phone without installing cydia. Just use blackra1n. Install snow and uninstall blackra1n. I did it. The only problem I've run into is not being able to use Youtube.

"The most notable, and now famous, hole in this theory is that every iPhone ships with the same default password"

Huh? Hole in what theory?

I have an app called Toggle SSH. Free on Cydia, just turn ssh off.

I have seen a lot of comments with this...

Just don't jailbreak. Simple. Easy.

Well how usefull. Such quality input. How much of your life is now forfilled by typing that comment.

Let me just say that there is a percentage of iPhone owners that are stuck in a must unlock situation.

My case for example is I have moved from the UK to Australia. I still want to use the iPhone that I legitimately own. Oh but here is a thought, I simply cant do that for some unknown reason!