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Yet another iPhone security bug

Just when you thought your iPhone was more secure than ever, you might want to think again. Programmer Karl Kraft's 12-year-old son was the one to uncover the security risk of the iPhone displaying text messages while in emergency call mode.

With the iPhone locked with a passcode and text message previews disabled, you can still see an incoming text message while you are in the emergency call mode.

The iPhone should just show the generic "New Text Message" preview, but instead it will show the part of the message (or whole message if it's short enough), and sender information.

You can get the full details on this bug, and screenshots of the iPhone from Karl's blog. Now we must sit and wait for Apple to fix it. Hopefully this won't take as long as implementing copy/paste for the iPhone.


[via Ars Technica]

Filed under: Software, Internet Tools

SMS Mac - send SMS from Address Book - for a price


Since we found it, SMS Mac has stirred conflict between price and convenience for us here at TUAW, but I nevertheless felt it pertinent to blog the latest v2.1. Besides the $10/yearly price and $5/50 SMS messages, quit a bit has changed from that original version. It now includes both a Dashboard and Yahoo! Widget, the ability to send SMSes to Address Book Groups, better features for delivery report handling and more.

If money were no object, I would call SMS Mac one of the most functional and convenient desktop SMS utilities I've ever seen. Unfortunately, its high price and yearly subscription model have scared this blogger off to find a more reasonable alternative.

Tip of the Day

Holding the Command key (aka the Apple key) and pressing Tab will cycle through your open applications. It's easier to Cmd-Tab if you are Copy (Cmd-C) and Pasting (Cmd-V) to and from various applications.


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